Monday, September 25th

Happy last Monday of September! Here's what we'll do in class today:

• I'll distribute copies of Kurt Vonnegut's speech "Fates Worse Than Death." 
• We'll listen to the audio recording of him giving the speech in the St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City. As we listen, you'll read along and annotate your copy of the speech to circle vocabulary that is unfamiliar to you. 
• Notes: You'll take some notes as we review the concept of Rhetorical Technique and Rhetorical Analysis. 
• Then we'll begin reading and discussing the speech for ourselves, focusing on Vonnegut's rhetorical technique and purpose.