“The Death of the Moth”Virginia Woolf

Objective:To chunk an AP passage and complete a SOAPSTone prior to answering multiple-choice questions; then synthesize SOAPSTone and multiple choice questions into well-written rhetorical analysis

Warm-Up

• Freeze High-five• Exchange biographical information about

Woolf, one quotes from “The Death of the Moth,” and explain the connection

• (If you weren’t here yesterday, read the biography.)

Prompt• Write a well-developed rhetorical analysis of “The

Death of the Moth” by Virginia Woolf. Incorporate at least three citations for support and explain how each connects to the message and affects the reader. (At least one support should come from the multiple choice test.)

Example: – Q. 40: combine question and answer

This passage opens with a contradiction that states moths that fly in the daytime are not proper moths.