January 6-10: 10th Grade World Lit.

This Week: Welcome back! I am so excited to get started with this semester as we'll be doing a deep dive into one of my favorite subjects: rhetoric! We will begin our semester with some notes on the basics of rhetoric and conduct a short study of speeches in order to lay a good foundation for the rest of the semester!

Monday, January 6:

• Overview of Syllabus
• This or That: Change my Mind

Tuesday, January 7:

• Basics of Rhetoric PowerPoint
• Notes Page
• Rhetoric in Commercials

Wednesday, January 8:

• SOAPSToneS Strategy
• "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" - Winston Churchill

Thursday, January 9:

• Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

Friday, January 10:

• Two Speeches by Greta Thunberg
• "Our House in on Fire"

• Speech Addressing the United Nations Action Summit

Next Week:

We will finish up our mini-unit on speeches (I told you it was going to be a quick one!). The unit 9 vocab quiz will be next Friday, January 17.

Important Dates:

• Tuesday, January 14: Signed syllabus due
• Friday, January 17: Unit 9 Vocab Quiz