Reading Argument Closely: Rhetorical Analysis of Nonfiction: Reading Unit 4, Grade 11 (Letters & Devotion)

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Reading Argument Closely: Rhetorical Analysis of Nonfiction is Unit 4 of American Voices, American Arguments: Literature and Rhetoric in Context (Part 1) (Grade 11), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 11 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 111 pages.

• Audience, purpose, and context as analytic categories applied to a nonfiction passage
• The claim-evidence-warrant relationship, using a provided sentence frame on a previously modeled passage
• The functional effect of a rhetorical appeal on a specified audience
• Rhetorical arrangement as a structural choice with argumentative consequences
• Diction and syntax as argumentative choices, not decoration
• The distinction between claim, evidence, and warrant
• Comparison of warrants across two texts addressing the same issue
• Integrated rhetorical analysis of a nonfiction passage
• Independent rhetorical analysis of an unseen nonfiction text
• The soundness of a warrant, independent of whether the procedure for locating a warrant was executed correctly
• The relationship between rhetorical skill and factual soundness of a claim

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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