- Analyzing a Text Rhetorically
- rhetorical analysis- claims meant to sway a specific audience
- includes: situation, purpose, claims, and audience
- Preface to Cultural Literacy
- culturally literate- to have the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world
- it is not restricted to social class or "culture"
- "children from poor illiterate homes tend to remain poor and illiterate" due to schools teaching fragmented curriculum based on educational theories
- cultural literacy has been attacked by liberals
- theories have dominated American education such as: Jean Jacques Rousseau who believed that we as adults should not impose adult ideas on your children before they can truly understand them. He believed children's knowledge and social skills will develop naturally without education. Hirsch explains how this theory is wrong because Rousseau had too much faith in children's ability to learn general skills from experiences.
- corrective theory is based on anthropological observation -all human communities are founded by shared information. Each country differs from one another (different cultural knowledge ).
- basic goal of education: acculturation-teaching children specific information shared by the adults of groups.
- Plato's theory- it is natural for children to learn an adult culture.
- Steps to Rhetorical analysis
- identify the situation
- situation- what moves the writer to write
- identify the writer's claims
- claims- assertions that authors must justify and support with evidence and good reasoning
- thesis/ main claim- controlling idea that makes the writer's main point clear
- minor claim- an assertion that requires support
- identify the writer's audience
- audience- the reader/readers whose opinions and actions the writer hopes to influence of change
- genre- type of writing ex: formal argument
- creating curriculum= political act (subject to negotiation and discussion)
- Composing a Rhetorical Analysis
- identify the how writers man their arguments, then you can use their strategies in your writing
- Write a Rhetorical Analysis of a Pargragh
- Agency
- situation-
- purpose- learn more about agency to find out how people can control the stories they tell about themselves
- main claim/ thesis- there are different kinds of agencies: "ideologies, network of language, communities, performativity (identity), psychic disidentification, and the games of culture"
- audience- readers
- Write a Rhetorical Analysis of an Essay
- Cultural Baggage
- her race is Scottish, English, Irish. But she didn't feel like she connected to any other those races and had no roots. She says she didn't have a specific culture at home. When she married her Eastern European Jewish husband she wanted her kids to have culture and religion. Her kids thought she was crazy and told her she didn't believe in God and either did her parents or grandparents. She says it didn't "furnish me with an "identity", but it was at least something to work with". In the end she describes her race as "none".
- From Identifying Claims to Analyzing Arguments
- claim-a fact or belief that needs to be supported
- evidence- information that backs up a claim
- thesis- summarizes the writer's position on a situations
- it is helpful to identify the type of claim: claim of fact, claim of value, claim of policy
- Understand the Logos of the Ad
- "what the cluster images and text convey"
- Feeding America helps clarify the the images of children and the alarm bell. It reminds us that food insecurity is a problems for children in need everyday. Hunger is all around us even though we are sometimes blind to it
- "translating images and texts to argument requires inductive reasoning- moving from specific pieces of evidence to a major premise
- " Several Hundred schools across the United Sates currently use Hirsch's model."
I was really shocked when reading this because I didn't know he wrote a curriculum based off his ideas and ideology.
-"We'd eaten ethnic foods in my childhood home, but these were all borrowed"
I feel like I never really thought about it this way and I can relate to this quote since theres not much culture in my family. When my family eats Mexican or Italian food it isn't the same like if we had the culture at home and it was homemade with a secret recipe.
-" A a child, I briefly nourished a craving for tradition and roots."
I think this has to do with a missing part of identity. I can relate to this quote because I don't feel like I any strong roots to my culture.
3) Questions for Discussion
- In the agency essay what did she mean by " that "hail" subjects who enter them"?? hail meaning like bow down to?
- In the Cultural Baggage essay what does the passage: " In fact, this ma have been the ideal cultural heritage for my particular ethic strain." ethnic strain??
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