English 10 Unit 7-3

• ​Analyze purpose and rhetorical strategies within a persuasive narrative.

• Omitted the Discussion objective

• Create annotations that help readers understand work of literature.

​A very short story that uses animals to represent or stand in for common human characteristics.

Conveys a life lesson in a way that's enjoyable and memorable​.

​Another form of writing designed to teach its readers is the parable. The parable

unfolds in a realistic setting, and unlike fables, real people populate parables, rather than talking animals. Parables are also often used in religious instruction to teach or illustrate moral lessons.

​Satires are different from fables and parables because they usually don't state their lesson or moral outright.

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Instead, they use humor to try to make a reader or audience member think. By thinking, the audience members can figure out the message without the author telling them directly.

​Read "Top of the Food Chain" by T. C. Boyle

Find out what it satirizes. Much of Study 7.3.6 helps you understand this selection.

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Discussion ​7.3.5

One Question.... post a meaningful response and 2 comments on classmates' posts for full credit.​

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​In this activity, you will play the role of a teacher who is helping students understand T. C. Boyle's "Top of the Food Chain." You'll create 10 to 15 annotations, or explanatory notes, to define some of Boyle's more difficult language and to show students how Boyle makes an argument through storytelling. You'll tie your thoughts together with an introductory paragraph that prepares students to interpret Boyle's story.

This writing assignment will focus on the following skills:

• Using dictionaries, thesauruses, and etymology dictionaries

• Defining words in context

• Explaining how a writer makes an argument through storytelling

• Backing up ideas with evidence from the text

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Check out this rubric!!!!

​An annotation is a note that helps a reader understand a text. When you read online, you can sometimes roll your cursor over certain words and phrases to read annotations. On paper, annotations usually appear in a column on the side of the page or in a list of footnotes at the bottom of the page. In this activity, you'll write annotations as footnotes.

​About half of your annotations will define words for student readers. You need to use three kinds of reference materials to create these annotations.

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Dictionary — Your most important resource. It gives you a word's definition, pronunciation, and history. It often includes short example phrases or sentences to show how words are used.

defines words in context...helps with pronunciation​

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Thesaurus — Provides lists of words with similar meanings. This can help you explain what a word means more concisely.

helps finding words with similar connotation​

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​Etymology dictionary — Gives information about a word's history. A word's history may influence its connotations, which in turn may influence the tone of a work of literature.

offers the history of the word... how it has changed over time​

​Respond to ME in the CHAT:



Which rhetorical appeal deals with a doctor inspiring trust because of offering his or her expert opinion..... or a sports star endorsing a product related to fitness?