Night Final Essay
Due June 1st to turnitin.com
Rubric:
MLA 20
Evidence 20
Analysis 20
Works Cited 20
Grammar/diction 20
Claim 20
120 points total in writing category
Elsinore High School
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Course Description
Advanced English 10 expands students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in alignment with Common Core State Standards. In addition, this course will provide extensive development of the writing process aligned with the Modern Language Association (MLA) format, critical literary response and analysis skills, and cross-curricular study. Students will learn and use strategies that promote rigor in order to support the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards.
Once you have read the syllabus (in files on the right), CLICK HERE Due by Friday, August 25th.
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Julius Caesar Socratic Seminar
To be completed before finals. Seminar will take place during finals.
Holocaust Poem
Here is a poem that you may use as a secondary source for your Night essay due 6/1.
Secondary Source- Podcast
https://listenwise.com/students/lessons/268-elie-wiesels-night
Here is a podcast to use as a secondary source for your final Night essay
(Transcript attached for citing).
Funeral Speeches Writing
You are to compare and/or contrast the rhetorical strategies used by both Brutus and Antony in their funeral speeches. You may use point-by-point method, or block method. Point-by-point is where your paragraph focuses on one type of rhetoric and you analyze how each character uses it. Block method is where you focus on one speech/character per paragraph, and analyze two examples of his most effective rhetoric. This should be a total of two paragraphs. Be sure your claim is clear.
Rubric:
MLA 10
MLA 10
Evidence 20
Analysis 20
Claim 10
Grammar/diction 10
Due to turnitin.com on Wednesday, May 16th.
Act 3 scene 2: Brutus's funeral speech
To compare rhetorical strategy with Antony's funeral speech in the same act/scene.
ACT 3 scene 2: Antony's funeral speech
To compare rhetorical strategy with Brutus' speech in the same act/scene.
Brutus' Monologue Act 2 Scene 1
Analyze for rhetorical strategy. Annotate in your OneNote notebook under Julius Caesar tab.
11th grade English choices
To clarify/review before you sign up for your classes for next year.
Fallacies in Rhetoric
For you to potentially include with your writing
Cassius's Speech Act 1 Scene 2
Annotate for rhetoric
Analyzing Cassius' speech
Paragraph example attached.
Rubric:
MLA format 10
Claim 10
Evidence 10
Analysis 10
Grammar/diction 10
Julius Caesar Background
Read the intro at: https://www.shmoop.com/julius-caesar/
Read the summary at: https://www.shmoop.com/julius-caesar/summary.html
After taking notes on both, answer the following questions:
What kind of play is it? Who wrote it? When did he write it?
What is it about?
When he wrote it, what were the political concerns at that time?
What was his source for the play?
What rhetorical strategy will Brutus use?
What rhetorical strategy will Antony use?
Who seems to appeal to ethos more?
Sonnet Requirements
Sonnet requirements:
14 lines of iambic pentameter
3 stanzas of 4 lines (abab rhyme scheme)
A couplet at the end (gg rhyme scheme)
Sonnet title is a number (ex: Sonnet 44)
At least one shortened word to better suit your needs (ex: o’er means over, but is pronounced as one syllable).
At least two literary devices must be employed. You must identify the devices by highlighting them and analyzing them in the comments or on the bottom of the page.
This can be about any subject of your choice.
DUE FRIDAY 4/20
Rhetoric
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