In today's class, we finished our notes on rhetoric and rhetorical analysis, focusing on exigence, audience, and purpose.  If you were not in class, please get these notes from someone in our class to copy.

After completing notes, we read aloud an article, entitled "Realism Crushes Misconceptions in Brutal World of 'Private Ryan,'" by Leonard Pitts (see more of his work at the link on the right).  Each student then formulated a 1 sentence précis, as we covered in our notes yesterday. I have read through the sentences turned in today and I am very pleased with how they turned out overall! I think we have found a method that, with plenty of practice, will make writing thesis statements so much easier! I know this will not excite you all nearly as much as it does me. :) 

Please remember your signed parent letter about the blog on Monday.  READ YOUR AP BOOK!!!!  These are due next Wednesday!  We work on something with your books in class on Wednesday, so make sure you bring them with you, either the book itself or if you read it on a Kindle or something, bring that.  You will need to have these in class for the assisignment we will be working on.

Have a great weekend!!!! See you Monday.

~Ms. Friend