So could everyone possibly post their presentations to the blog to make it easier for the people who have to miss a day or two for AP testing? I posted mine below
My text to review was the book "Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America." In this book, the author, Barbara Ehrenreich, describes her task as a journalist of going undercover to work and live in the jobs held by the lower and middle classes. Three rhetorical devices that Ehrenreich uses are her establishment of ethos, her humor and sarcasm, and her powerful diction. Ehrenreich establishes her ethos by pointing out that she has a PhD in Biology and that she writes for the magazine Harper’s on page 3. Throughout the book she also uses a lot of statistics from institutions such as the “National Coalition for the Homeless” and the “Washington-based Economic Policy Institute” and the “Preamble Center for Public Policy.” By using these statistics, the readers can tell that she has done her research and is credible to write about poverty, so they are more likely to believe her. For the same reason, Ehrenreich uses humor/sarcasm when, for example, she targets the customers at the restaurant she works at for putting the baby on the same table as the food, making it look like a side dish (pg. 20) or when she uses phrases like “vacation in penury” or “picture a fat person’s hell, and I don’t mean a place with no food” (pg. 29). By making the readers laugh, they are (again) more likely to take what Ehrenreich has to say as truth. The last device that Ehrenreich uses is her descriptive diction, used to disgust and repulse the audience and emphasize the terrible working conditions when she is beginning work as a waitress at the restaurant Jerry’s in Florida. She describes the kitchen as a filthy place with “sinks everywhere clogged with scraps of lettuce, decomposing lemon wedges and water logged toast crusts” (pg. 30). The reader can visualize the disgusting kitchen, full of sour scents and sticky substances, and get a sense of the vile work the poverty-stricken toiler must endure to make a very small amount of money. From her earlier establishment of ethos and her humor, the reader is already more open to what Ehrenreich has to say, so when her description shows the ugly side of minimum wage work, the audience can see why something needs to be changed and is motivated to change it. I would use "Nickel and Dimed" on AP Lang prompts related to poverty, minimum wage vs. living wage, working conditions, and living situations for low wage workers.
So could everyone possibly post their presentations to the blog to make it easier for the people who have to miss a day or two for AP testing? I posted mine below
ReplyDeleteMy text to review was the book "Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America." In this book, the author, Barbara Ehrenreich, describes her task as a journalist of going undercover to work and live in the jobs held by the lower and middle classes. Three rhetorical devices that Ehrenreich uses are her establishment of ethos, her humor and sarcasm, and her powerful diction. Ehrenreich establishes her ethos by pointing out that she has a PhD in Biology and that she writes for the magazine Harper’s on page 3. Throughout the book she also uses a lot of statistics from institutions such as the “National Coalition for the Homeless” and the “Washington-based Economic Policy Institute” and the “Preamble Center for Public Policy.” By using these statistics, the readers can tell that she has done her research and is credible to write about poverty, so they are more likely to believe her. For the same reason, Ehrenreich uses humor/sarcasm when, for example, she targets the customers at the restaurant she works at for putting the baby on the same table as the food, making it look like a side dish (pg. 20) or when she uses phrases like “vacation in penury” or “picture a fat person’s hell, and I don’t mean a place with no food” (pg. 29). By making the readers laugh, they are (again) more likely to take what Ehrenreich has to say as truth. The last device that Ehrenreich uses is her descriptive diction, used to disgust and repulse the audience and emphasize the terrible working conditions when she is beginning work as a waitress at the restaurant Jerry’s in Florida. She describes the kitchen as a filthy place with “sinks everywhere clogged with scraps of lettuce, decomposing lemon wedges and water logged toast crusts” (pg. 30). The reader can visualize the disgusting kitchen, full of sour scents and sticky substances, and get a sense of the vile work the poverty-stricken toiler must endure to make a very small amount of money. From her earlier establishment of ethos and her humor, the reader is already more open to what Ehrenreich has to say, so when her description shows the ugly side of minimum wage work, the audience can see why something needs to be changed and is motivated to change it. I would use "Nickel and Dimed" on AP Lang prompts related to poverty, minimum wage vs. living wage, working conditions, and living situations for low wage workers.