Justin Rhodes - October 18th, 2016

Hello classmates,
Today, the class started out with a summative assessment. In this assessment, we were tested on three main points. Our ability to analyze the rhetoric of the text (what it does, and how it does it). We also had to identify how rhetorical devices contribute to the overall appeal of a text. And the last thing we were assessed on was our ability to make changes to a text to indicate a different kind of rhetoric. The summative was worth a total of 60 points, and took the whole class period. In order to test us on all these skills, we were given a slideshow of excerpts of different texts, as well as classmate pieces and we were tested on each of the following main points listed above. With the slide show we had to pull out certain pieces and analyze them, identify the contribution of rhetorical devices to the overall appeal, as well as analyzing what the text does, and how it did it.