Patrick Henry’s “Speech at the Virginia Convention” Select two rhetorical choices Henry makes, and briefly explain the significance (effectiveness) of the choices in developing his argument.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Media project total score: of 100 points during the next several lessons you will create a media project about a place that is important to you, such as the place where you live. your teacher will score your assignment using the media project grading rubric. look at the rubric yourself so that you know how your assignment will be scored. you may create your project using a word processing presentation program or a slide program such as powerpoint®. include a title slide, two or three content slides, and a sources slide that contains the urls of your online sources. save the document to your computer with your name at the end of the filename (e.g., ng_ela 9-10_w_11_ga alice_jones). submit that document to your teacher for grading refer to the media project assignment document and follow the steps to complete the assignment. when you have finished, submit the assignment document to your teacher for grading.

Read the excerpt from hemingway’s a farewell to arms. we parked the cars beyond the brickyard. the ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. there were three doctors that i knew. i talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them. which best describes hemingway’s style of writing in the excerpt? straightforward and simple, while still relating a lot of information to the reader long-winded and offering far too much information to the reader overly complicated, making it difficult to interpret and understand the text effortless and uncomplicated, with little meaning for the reader to interpret