CURRENT FOCUS: ARGUMENT AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Honors English 9The purpose of this class is twofold:
You will learn by reading, writing, speaking, and listening. You will study argument in all its forms -- fiction and non-fiction. You will analyze a variety of literary texts. You will read texts as old as The Odyssey and as new as Persepolis. You will write. A lot. |
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. ~ Aristotle