Visual Argument and Rhetoric Slideshows

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Summer Assignment 2012

AP English 3                        Summer 2012                             Mr. Konkoly

All work counts toward your first term grade.

Overview:  You are reading a brief article, five essays, and two books.  You are writing five reflections, two essays, and keeping a reading journal.


The article and essays, or links to them, can be found at http://dkonkoly.blogspot.com
You also will find other helpful materials there. Plus, you can use the comment option to pose questions to each other and reply!


You will have to get the two books through the library, buy them, or share them.

Reading and Reflecting as a Writer

Read the article “What Do Students Need to Know about Rhetoric?” to

First Article to Understand Rhetoric

Read this article before reading the other essays and writing your first rhetorical analysis.

It provides a good introduction to "thinking rhetorically" and explains some terminology and concepts you might be able to use.

 “What Do Students Need to Know about Rhetoric?”

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/repository/ap06_englang_roskelly_50098.pdf

You also will find some student samples below.

Links to Essays for Summer Rhetorical Analysis

Bernard Cooper, “Burl’s”
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-11-27/magazine/tm-5000_1_burl
(NOTE: You have to read multiple pages to get the whole essay.)

Chang-Rae Lee, “Coming Home Again”
 http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson998/ComingHomeAgain.pdf


Judy Brady, “I Want a Wife”
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/everythingsanargument4e/content/cat_020/Brady_I_Want_a_Wife.pdf

Erin Aubrey Kaplan, “Black like me--but not too black”
http://www.salon.com/2003/06/13/nosejobs/singleton/

George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/everythingsanargument4e/content/cat_020/Orwell_Shooting.pdf

Mark Twain, “Two Ways of Seeing a River”
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/everythingsanargument4e/content/cat_020/Twain_TwoWaysofSeeing.pdf

Sanders Essay: "Under the Influence"

UNDER THE INFLUENCE
Paying the price of my father's booze
By Scott Russell Sanders
Source: HARPER'S, Nov. 1989, pp. 68-75

My father drank. He drank as a gut-punched boxer gasps for breath, as a starving dog gobbles food--compulsively, secretly, in pain and trembling. I use the past tense not because he ever quit drinking but because he quit living. That is how the story ends for my father, age sixty-four, heart bursting, body cooling, slumped and forsaken on the linoleum of my brother's trailer. The story continues for my brother, my sister, my mother, and me, and will continue as long as memory holds.

In the perennial present of memory, I slip into the garage or barn to see my father tipping back the flat green bottles of wine, the brown cylinders of whiskey, the cans of beer disguised in paper bags. His Adam's apple bobs, the liquid gurgles, he wipes the sandy-haired back of a hand over his lips, and then, his bloodshot gaze bumping into me, he stashes the bottle or can inside his jacket, under the workbench, between two bales of hay, and we both pretend the moment has not occurred.

Sample Rhetorical Analysis 2

Sample Summer Rhetorical Analysis

Cynthia Ozick, “The Seam of the Snail”                                                                   

            Cynthia Ozick uses imagery and personal stories to illustrate the differences between her and her mother’s form of excellence. She is able to show the contrast between herself and her mother vividly because the subject is something she knows very well. What can one know better than their own life? Ozick is very self-aware, admitting her own flaws and struggle for perfection. She also recognizes that her mother’s life was lived fully and that it had its own form of excellence. She understands that she will never be like her mother; she is too concerned with the trivial things and perfect details to live lavishly. She is the snail, trapped inside the confinements of flawlessness.

Ozick uses stories of things her mother did when she was growing up to make the character seem familiar and endearing. A reader of this essay will relate to the differences between Ozick and her mother, a woman who, “…thought herself capable of doing anything, and did everything she imagined. But nothing was perfect” (302). For example,

Sample Rhetorical Analysis 1

Sample Summer Rhetorical Analysis

Power of Death Over Life

In reading “The Death of a Moth” it is easy to just go along with the story but a closer look allows one to see how Virginia Woolf connected with the reader. In the first sentence the reader relates to the feelings of the writer. The author includes the reader by using the word “us”. This use of wording makes the reader imagine that they have felt the emotional sense they feel on autumn nights and understand it, whether they have actually experienced it or not. The observation of the surroundings, of the moth, the day, and the farm establish a context in which the reader is put into the particular scenario with the author. Therefore, one is able to feel where Woolf is coming from.

            Woolf uses the appeal of ethos when describing the pity felt towards the moth. The moth is pathetic, being enthralled in happiness with only being able to do so little, yet she connects the creature to something more significant. The sympathy felt is mixed with warmth;