Lesson 46

Warm-Up: Which types of slanters are being used?

• Football, especially in high school, distorts the goals of the so-called educational institution that sponsors it, turns ordinary boys into bedazzled heroes, tells them they’re kings of the corridors, coddled by teachers afraid to flunk them, as their parents try to live out their glamorous dreams over the broken bodies of their children bashing their helmeted heads into one another as thousands cheer.

A. Downplayers, rhetorical definition, innuendoB. Labeling, downplayers, hyperboleC. Hyperbole, rhetorical explanation, truth

surrogate

Modifiers Review• Modifiers are on your

test too!

“How to Read

an Editorial”

pp. 200• What is the difference

between a news story and an editorial?o News story: to informo Editorial: to inform and PERSUADE

• In the margin, summarize the 8 bulleted points on p. 200.

• Which bulleted points are steps you don’t usually take?

How to Read an Editorial

1. Look at HEADLINE/SUB-HEADING and predict what the editorial will be about.

2. Who is the AUTHOR? Is there an AFFILIATION? Any potential bias?

3. Read beginning of the editorial. What is the ISSUE and what is the writer’s STANCE?

4. Stop and PREDICT the OPPOSITION.5. What EVIDENCE does the writer provide?6. Does the writer address the OPPOSITION? Why or why

not? (Remember bias through selection and omission?)7. Circle words that are “SLANTED.”8. What would you say to the writer?

“Facing Consequences at Eden Prairie High

School” pp. 202+

• Identify slanters and bias in this article.• Fill in your chart. • (Hint: you will soon be writing your own!)

“Facing Consequences at Eden Prairie High”

Read the editorial in light of the points you just went over.

After Reading:1. What does the author seem to assume the

audience is feeling about the issue?2. How does the author tailor language and

argument to his audience?3. Did the author use slanters and bias? What is

their effect?

Revisit: “Facebook Photos…Students” pp 192+

• How was the author biased?o For the students

• What is the evidence to support the bias?o “Sting” in the headlineo Administrator not heard from until

paragraph 11 (through email).o Attempt to appear objective by quoting a

student who was not involved in the incident. He is standing up for the punished kids even though he had nothing to do with it.