Unit 2 RA TWAP English Language and Composition

Monday, November 2nd, 2015

Materials• Blue or black ink pen• 2-3 pieces of notebook paper• CA textbook• Nothing else!!!!• Put your phone in your

backpack• No highlighters or colored pens

Prompt: How does the author use rhetoric to create demarcation lines during a time of strife?

• Choose one of the readings from this list and analyze it in your response to the prompt• Paine “These are the Times that Try Men’s Souls”• Jefferson “Declaration of Independence”• Roosevelt “Pearl Harbor Address”• Bush “Address to Joint Session of Congress”

• Note: in your multi-paragraph response to the prompt, be sure that your thesis is well-developed and that you embed textual evidence throughout the body of your essay.

Turn In Your Work!

• Make sure your name is on your paper! • Staple together your essay and your pre-write/outline work