Rhetorical Analysis
Today I will pass back your Great Gatsby essays and you will have time to review my feedback and ask me questions about it.Next, we will practice reading a RA prompt from 1996, Lady Montagu's letter to her daughter, a notoriously difficult prompt.
The main point here is that "the magic" needs to happen early on in that 40 minutes that you have to write this essay. You need to be able to use your critical reading skills to clearly understand the writer's position and purpose and 2-3 devices used most effectively to accomplish that purpose. If you misread or miss something vital at this point, it will be very difficult to do well on this task.
ANNOTATIONS are ESSENTIAL. Read with your pen/pencil in hand and mark critically!
TODAY you have ten minutes to:
Read the introduction to the letter. What information does it give us about the speaker and occasion/exigence that might be important?
In one sentence, try to rewrite the writer's position in your own words at the bottom of the page and make a list of 3 devices you marked in the piece that you might use to talk about this passage.
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