Mr. Clodfelter's AP Language and Composition

This blog is for Mr. Clodfelter's AP Language and Composition course, 2nd block at Thomasville High School. Students will be required to post AT LEAST one response to each weekly posting. Also, students will be required to respond to AT LEAST 2 student-generated responses per week. Those responses will be graded by the instructor.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Rhetoric and the News

Though we began this topic some time ago with the Presidential election, how does television news contain a rhetorical strategy? Is there a ...

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Shelby Steele's "On Being Black and Middle Class"

How does Steele combine issues of race and class rhetorically? What sort of tropes or devices does she use to make this combination? How c...

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Obama's Speech on Race (3-18-08)

Read Barack Obama's Speech on Race (you can find at my website) and answer ONE of the following questions: 1) What is the rhetorical eff...

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Race and the Election

Given Barack Obama's election to the Presidency, race remains an important issue in our country. Do you believe that this election chan...

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Visual Rhetoric in Politics

Find a television advertisement for or against a political candidate in the upcoming election (use the internet to find those videos). Anal...

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Tropes in Political Rhetoric

In the person you've chosen for your Unit Paper, select ONE of the tropes that person uses in one of his/her speeches. Explain the impo...

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The Rhetoric of War

How have past presidents or political figures called for war? What kind of language have they used to promote or argue for war? How about ...

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