sotaenglish 2

  Monday, April 26                                    Refresher on the rhetorical triangle.   Three parts: the speaker/ writer                       the message                       the audience                       Everytime you  (the speaker/ writer)   wants to convey a  message  to someone  (the audience /the person you are writing or speaking to) , you use a rhetorical argument to make your point, The basic three methods of making an argument are logos (logic), ethos (ethics, what is right or wrong) and pathos (emotion). Let's take a look more closely at the rhetorical devices of logos, ethos and pathos. A rhetorical device is a linguistic (verbal) tool that employs a particular type of sent...

CURRENT CLASS NEWS: The graphic organizers for The Story of an Hour were due Friday at midnight. We worked on these as a class. There was nothing you needed to complete outside of classtime. Thank you to those who shared their work. At this point, they are late. The maximum grade is a 75.   Summary of this week's work: Monday: Irony exercise Tues-Friday- essay on The Story of an Hour All material follows below *************************** PowerSchool for Students is where students can login in order to see their grades, schedule and attendance.    Students will now see the link in ROConnect.  Students must sign up using the username and password emailed to their RCSD121 Gmail account from PowerSchool. Emails are now being sent from PowerSchool on the 1st of each month to students who have not yet signed into their account.   Reminder, for more information as well as retrieval of username and/or password see document: PowerS...