10H Entry Assignment

 

English 10H ELA Summer Assignment

Welcome to tenth grade Honors ELA.  Over the summer, you must complete the Summer Literacy Assignment.  This work will count towards your first quarter grade.  The first two parts of the assignment must be completed.  The third part is extra credit.  All work is due on the first day of school.

 This year, we will be considering various methods of advancing opinions, or claims, in text.  There are three different types of evidence a speaker or writer uses to appeal to his or her audience:

  • Logos: by appealing to an audience’s sense of reason and logic, the speaker or writer intends to make the audience think clearly about the sensible and/or obvious answer to a problem
  • Pathos: by appealing to the audiences emotions, the speaker or writer can make the audience feel sorrow, shame, sympathy, embarrassment, anger, excitement, and/or fear
  • Ethos: the overall appeal of the speaker or writer himself or herself; it is important that this person have impressive credentials, a notable knowledge of the subject, and/or appear to be a likeable and moral

These are called rhetorical strategies.

For more insight into using rhetorical strategies for persuasion, visit The OWL at Purdue https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/588/04/

Part I: Article Analysis

Step One: Select one non-fiction news article from each of the following genres for a total of FIVE:

  • International News
  • National News
  • Sports
  • Local News
  • Editorial

Step Two: Your articles must come from the news sources at kadaza.com

 Step Three: Answer the following for each article.

Title of article, author, and source.

  1. In your own words, state the author’s thesis/claim/opinion?
    1. Evidence/Direct Quotation (include author and page number) and type of evidence (ethos, logos, or pathos).
    2. Explanation of Evidence
    3. Evidence/Direct Quotation (include author and page number) and type of evidence (ethos, logos, or pathos).
    4. Explanation of Evidence
    5. Evidence/Direct Quotation (include author and page number) and type of evidence (ethos, logos, or pathos).
    6. Explanation of Evidence
  2. How well does the author prove their thesis/claim/opinion?
  3. Is the author’s argument balanced? Is their evidence one sided?
  4. Is the author’s argument convincing? Do you agree with their point of view?

 

Part Two: Speech Analysis

Step One: Read the Nobel Prize acceptance speeches by President Obama and Dr. Martin Luther King. The speeches can be found at nobelprize.org; you can both read and listen to the speeches at this site.

Step Two:  Identify at least three arguments made by President Obama and Dr. King in their respective speeches.  Identify the evidence used to support their claims.  Use one table like this to complete analysis of EACH speech.

Claim

Paraphrase at least three arguments used in this speech

 Support

Clearly identify the details used to support the argument
1.  
2.  
3.  

 Your work must be submitted in MLA format (you may also use the OWL at Purdue to find information on formatting).  You will be assigned an in-class essay based on Part Two during the first days of school.