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Activity: Opening Paragraph Practice
Directions: Read the selection "A Few Words for Motherhood" by author Wendell Berry. Pretend that you are given this selection and asked to write an essay in response to the following prompt:
"In a well-developed essay, analyze the rhetorical strategies Berry uses to describe the event of the calf's birthing and the nature of motherhood. Support your analysis with specific references to the text."
Then, using the SOAPSTone template given in Section 4 to create a potential opening paragraph for this essay. This is just to practice using the template- there may be a number of possible answers!
Template from the lesson (using the Lincoln "Gettysburg Address" example):
Speaker, Occasion, and Subject
(Writerâs credentials), (writerâs first and last name), in his/her (type of text), (title of text), (verb- subject).
Example: President Abraham Lincoln, in his famous speech now known as The Gettysburg Address, illuminates the sacrifices made by soldiers during the battle at Gettysburg.
Purpose
(Writerâs last name)âs purpose is to (what the writer does in the text).
Example: Lincolnâs purpose is to acknowledge the price paid by the fallen soldiers and inspire the audience by recalling the greater purpose of reuniting the North and South.
Audience
He/she adopts a[n] (adjective describing the attitude/feeling conveyed by the writer) tone in order to (verb phrase describing what the writer wants readers to do/think) in his/her (audience).
Example: He utilizes a humble and reverential tone in order to stir feelings of patriotism and determination in his audience.
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English, 22.06.2019 01:00
Select the quote that best shows character. âwhy should he disturb my peace? â âexcuse me, sir, i am not accustomed to listen to such expressions or to such a tone of voice. i want to hear no more.â âthe dear lady may well have taken me for a brigand.â âthen you wonât pay me now? eh? â
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Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authorsâ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.
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English, 22.06.2019 05:00
What can you infer about esperanza's character from the fact that she argues three days with her mother trying to persuade her to write the note?
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