This five-page product focuses on College Board's 2004 rhetorical analysis prompt, an excerpt from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Each page features a "good, better, and best" example of a step in the essay: thesis statement, topic sentence/claim, evidence, and commentary. The good, better, and best examples are accompanied by explanations to help students understand how they can make their writing more sophisticated. Also included is last-minute advice for the rhetorical analysis essay.