Persuasive/Rhetorical

Some essays reward analysis not just for what they argue, but for how the sentences themselves are built to carry that argument forward. This worksheet uses an original essay on the ethics of everyday convenience to give seniors practice with AP-level rhetorical analysis, reading syntax and sentence-level choices as deliberate rhetorical tools rather than simply

A speech works differently than an essay. It has to hold a live audience’s attention, build an argument out loud, and land its point in the moment, without footnotes or a second read to fall back on. This worksheet gives tenth graders a chance to study exactly how a speech accomplishes that, using an original