1. Today Is… 3/16/2015 Monday (These assignments are for the week of 3/16.) Weekly assignments: http://essayscorer.com/ph/ga/ecm/ Login: Your lunch number Password: last name2014(no spaces) 2nd and 5 th DUE FRIDAY Assessment over sentence structure – Friday Notes on sentence structure Synthesis essay 1 st and 6 th Due FRIDAY Notes on sentence structure Assessment sentence structure– Friday Synthesis essay _________________________________________ Random Fact: The elephant is the only animal with 4 kneecaps. The smell of fall! The sounds of fall! What to do when you get to class today! R.A.C.E Restate the question Answer the question Cite from text Explain how evidence proves your answer. Last Class: What is an antecedent? Next Class: I Lesson/Learning Target: (Honesty, Respect, Unity, Quality, Responsibility) I will use evidence from a text to prove my topic sentence. I will use correct conventions and sentence structure.

2. Words to remember rhetoric: effective speech and writing pathos: an appeal to human emotions ethos: your good reputation logos: logical, or reasonable appeal argument: reasoning or issue audience: the person or people you address with your writing or speech

3. No one shows mercy because he has to. It just happens, the way gentle rain drops on the ground. Mercy is a double blessing. It blesses the one who gives it and the one who receives it. It’s strongest in the strongest people. It looks better in a king than his own crown looks on him. The king’s scepter represents his earthly power, the symbol of majesty, the focus of royal authority. But mercy is higher than the scepter. It’s enthroned in the hearts of kings, a quality of God himself. Kingly power seems most like God’s power when the king mixes mercy with justice. So although justice is your plea, Jew, consider this