DAY 27 – REVISITING
SUBJECTS,
DO/IO/PN/PA, AND
RHETORICAL
STRATEGIES
INSTRUCTOR: KYLE BRITT
Agenda
 Warm Up
8 Min.
 Individual Practice – Vocabulary Quiz
20 Min.
 Individual Practice – Rhetorical devices
10 min.
 Oliver Stone Article
 Pair Practice – Think pair share
10 Min.
 Pair Practice – Grammar Worksheet
20 Min.
 Closure
8 Min.
Objectives
1. Identify Hard-to-find subjects
2. Identify IO/DO/PA/PN
3. Analyze the use of rhetorical devices in literature
Homework:
RP outline due 3/11
Warm Up
Answer the questions:
1. What type of verb is needed for DO/IO?
2. What type of verb is needed for PA/PN?
3. What questions do you ask to find DO, IO,
PA, and PN?
Vocabulary Quiz
*Name at the top*
You have 20 min. to complete the quiz.
No talking, please.
Raise your hand when you are finished.
Start reading/annotating the article by Oliver Stone.
->Annotate for tone and rhetorical devices
Individual Practice – Read/Annotate
Read and annotate the Oliver Stone article, “Where I Find My Heroes.”
Pick out the instances of repetition, parallelism, and analogy.
Annotate for tone.
What message does the author try to share with the reader via the rhetorical devices?
You have 10 min. When you are finished, get with your partner and share your
annotations/ideas. Compare and discuss them.
Grammar Revisited – How to Break Down a Sentence
Find these elements
in this order:
5. Subject (what the
sentence is about)
1. Articles (a, an, and 6. Identify the type of
the)
Verb
7. Find
2. Prepositions
PA/PN/DO/IO
3. Object of a Prep.
8. Adjectives and
4. Verbs
Adverbs
Grammar Practice
 Take a note sheet for hard-to-find subjects.
 Take a worksheet for hard-to-find subjects and IO/DO/PA/PN
 Complete it in your pairs.
 If you have questions, ask your partner for an explanation.
 Let’s work on the first few sentences together.
Closure 3, 2, 1
Write:
3 types of rhetorical devices and what they
show.
2 things you learned about PA/PN/DO/IO
1 thing you learned about hard to find subjects
Put the room back in order and clean up the
trash.