Writing
Performance Task
Rhetorical Appeals
Rhetorical Situations
Reading Strategies
100

Found in every essay, this sentence tells us what the essay is about. 

What is Thesis?

100

This part of the rubric asks you to have adequate use of sentence formation, capitalization, and grammar usage

What are Writing Conventions?

100

This Rhetorical Appeal connects the speaker to their audience

What is Pathos?

100

The person that delivers the message

What is Speaker?

100

The main idea of a fictional reading, usually to give a life lesson.

What is Theme?

200

The best type of evidence to use when writing an English essay.

What is a quote?

200

The Performance Task asks you to understand how to write for the Task, _______, and Purpose.

What is audience?

200

This Rhetorical Appeal uses facts and numbers to guide their point

What is Logos?

200

The person(s) that are targeted for the message

What is Audience?

200

When considering the main argument for a reading, you should look at the Who, What, and ___

What is Why?

300

The ideas that should come after every piece of evidence used, typically showing the connection between the writer's claim and their evidence.

What is Reasoning?

300

The rubric based on Organization requires you to have this opinion for your paragraphs 

What is Claim?

300

An anti-smoking ad listing the many healthy risks of smoking uses this Rhetorical Appeal

What is Logos?

300

The time, place, and current events that surround the message

What is Context?

300

Notes that you can take on the side of the reading or during your read

What are annotations?

400

The best type of evidence to use from a quote, which is either logos or ____.

What is Ethos?
400

This part of the Evidence Rubric requires you to include this attribution to the source material.

What is a Citation?

400

A quote from Bob Thomas, a biologist at Loyola University in New Orleans, would be an example of this Rhetorical Appeal

What is Ethos?

400

The result of the author's message to the people they are addressing.

What is Purpose?

400

When asked to understand the definition of a word as used in a reading, you look for these types of clues. (Two word answer please!)

What are Context Clues?

500

Addressing an idea that goes against a person's opinion or claim in an argumentative essay.

What is a counterclaim?

500

The Organization Rubric asks you to connect your ideas using these writing strategies, usually found at the beginning of sentences.

What are Transitions?

500

Lincoln uses this Rhetorical Appeal in this quote: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on..." 

What is Pathos?

500

The motivation of the author as they write their message

What is Exigence?

500

When given two or more sources, you will be asked which source backs up these claims - therefore, you should ____ and _____.

What is compare and contrast?