English II (Period 2)

This nine weeks, our unit is Rhetoric. It is made up of LearnZillion lessons. Your child has a packet with all of the worksheets. He/she needs to keep up with the packets for the entire nine weeks. 

Unit goal: Students read literary and informational texts which use rhetoric to advance a point of view or purpose. Students understand the differences between argument, persuasion, and propaganda based on how authors uses rhetoric to advance their perspective or purpose and the impact of rhetoric on the reader/listener. Students then express their understanding by evaluating the effectiveness of the unit texts and writing their own speech using rhetorical devices.