Looking for quick ways to assess rhetorical analysis or warm up AP English Language students' brains for class?

These five rhetorical analysis exercises are great for

✏️bell ringers

✏️warm ups

✏️formative assessment

✏️summative test items

✏️closure

✏️pair work

✏️sub plans

✏️homework

✏️independent work packet

✏️AP™ Lang exam review

Each exercise offers a short passage, a prompt, and space for student response. Following each exercise are teacher notes.

In this set, passages are taken from non-fiction pieces by

Mark Twain

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Anna Quindlen

Daniel Defoe

What Teachers Are Saying

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Excellent resource to use in working with Pre-AP and AP students! These were easy and quick pieces for my students to work through [remotely]. Erin M.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is a great and easy-to-implement resource for rhetorical analysis. By providing annotated versions, the seller makes it easy to use these as openers but also as annotation models, and models are always welcomed!

Nicole S.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Great resource and easy to expand into longer lessons if you want. Madeline S.

Now on Google Slides!! A link is provided within the PDF.