Found in every essay, this sentence tells us what the essay is about.
What is Thesis?
This part of the rubric asks you to have adequate use of sentence formation, capitalization, and grammar usage
What are Writing Conventions?
This Rhetorical Appeal connects the speaker to their audience
What is Pathos?
The person that delivers the message
What is Speaker?
The main idea of a fictional reading, usually to give a life lesson.
What is Theme?
The best type of evidence to use when writing an English essay.
What is a quote?
The Performance Task asks you to understand how to write for the Task, _______, and Purpose.
What is audience?
This Rhetorical Appeal uses facts and numbers to guide their point
What is Logos?
The person(s) that are targeted for the message
What is Audience?
When considering the main argument for a reading, you should look at the Who, What, and ___
What is Why?
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?
The rubric based on Organization requires you to have this opinion for your paragraphs
What is Claim?
An anti-smoking ad listing the many healthy risks of smoking uses this Rhetorical Appeal
What is Logos?
The time, place, and current events that surround the message
What is Context?
Notes that you can take on the side of the reading or during your read
What are annotations?
The best type of evidence to use from a quote, which is either logos or ____.
This part of the Evidence Rubric requires you to include this attribution to the source material.
What is a Citation?
A quote from Bob Thomas, a biologist at Loyola University in New Orleans, would be an example of this Rhetorical Appeal
What is Ethos?
The result of the author's message to the people they are addressing.
What is Purpose?
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?
Addressing an idea that goes against a person's opinion or claim in an argumentative essay.
What is a counterclaim?
The Organization Rubric asks you to connect your ideas using these writing strategies, usually found at the beginning of sentences.
What are Transitions?
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?
The motivation of the author as they write their message
What is Exigence?
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?