SOAPS
Identify strategies, assertions, evidence, and write about how the evidence affects the audience.
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Read the article and annotate using soapstone, looking for the rhetorical appeals, and looking for the modes of discourse.
- According to the author what are the reasons high schools are not meeting students’ needs?
- According to the article, why should high school students be treated like college students?
- How does the author begin his argument (strategies)?
- What are the strongest persuasive strategies used in the article (focus your attention on the middle of the article)?
- How does the writer conclude? Identify the most significant strategy or strategies and give examples.
- Choose a strategy you identified along with the example and explain its effect on the argument.
If you wrote on the relationship between certainty and doubt, please click here to access your scoring guide and student samples.
For those of you who wrote about the relationship between ownership and self, click here.
Scoring Guidelines and Student Samples
Step 1: Read the scoring guidelines for your essay:
- Identify all the adjectives and adverbs. Note how they differ with the scores.
Step 2: Please read only the first student sample. This is the highest-scoring of the three samples, and it is always an eight or a nine. As you read, please answer the following:
- How does the writer make her position clear? Can you find her claim?
- How does the writer support her claim? Find the evidence.
- Is most of the evidence she uses fact or opinion? What is her most compelling piece of evidence?
- How does the writer reason out her evidence (i.e., explain how the evidence supports her claim)?
Step 3: Finally, read the overview and scoring commentary (for the highest-scoring essay only).
- In your own words, describe the intent behind the prompt. Essentially, what did the writers of the question want students to do (hint: focus on verbs)?
- Why did the top essay score an eight or a nine? According to the scorers, what did the writer do well?
- What is your overall impression of this student’s writing? As an AP writer-in-training, what did you gain from examining a peer’s successful work?
You may print or hand write them, but all the words are here for you in one spot. Happy Studying!
1_2 abbreviate _ vindicate 3_4 abstinence _ reverence 5_6 empathy _ digression 7_8 demagogue _ convergence 9_10 collaborate _ circuitous 11_12 adversity _ adulation 13_14 amicable _ benevolent 15_16 antagonist _ anachronistic 17_18 fortuitous and hackneyed 19_20 hedonist and compassion 21_22 clairvoyant and discredit 23_24 aesthetic and inconsequential 25_26 incompatible and hypothesis 27_28 jubilation and procrastinate 29_30 reconciliation and spontaneity 31_32 sagacity and resilient 33_34 Submissive and censure 35_36 Maritime and Anecdote 37_38 venerable and surreptitious 39_40 superficial and pretentious 41_42 conformist and substantiate 43_44 Subtle and tenacious 45_46 Transient and condescending 47_48 extenuating and reclusive 49_50 rancorous and scrutinize 51_52 suppress and novice
Here is the rhetoric pp presentation. I don’t mind if you print it or write it, but please make sure the notes are in your binder. Intro to Rhetoric
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Yogurtopia: also click on “our story” to learn more; learn the corporate pledge- https://yogurtopia.com/careers/corporate-opportunities/
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Dearborn Public Schools: Memorize and incorporate the vision: https://dearbornschools.org/district/strategic-plan
