Team Task

Focus:  Assessing Understanding: de Tocqueville/Mencken

• Text Structure/Rhetorical Strategies
•  Claim/Main Ideas
•  Engagement (Audience)

Task:  Compare/Contrast both authors’ claims and how these claims are represented in the structure (Organization, rhetorical strategies, Syntax)of their respective texts (essays)….

Comparing/Contrasting:

• Claims (using main ideas)    /4
• the author’s structuring of  text to convey purpose? /4
• Audience Engagement in texts /4

Please show your thinking in a presentation to the class that all members of the team must participate in using a chart/graph/video/picture/etc…that shows close, and critical, reading of texts…In other words, I want your metacognitive process on display…./4