Comrades, here is your Sunday post. The essays test your writing ability in a variety of modes and for a variety of purposes. These timed essays measure your expository and analytical writing skills, skills that are essential to success in many college exams. In general, expect that the three different essays will give you an opportunity to demonstrate that you can do the following (items in red are what is tested on the test; items in black are what I expect you to do):

1. Analyze how an author's rhetoric and style create meaning, based on one given reading passage. Write your opening paragraph to this question based on 1984, but before you do, define "rhetoric".

2. Analyze an author's key point(s) in a given passage and create an argument (persuasive) essay that discusses the validity of the author's message. Think back to Gatsby. Write a paragraph that seeks to persuade the reader that society in the 20s was misogynistic.

3. Synthesize an argument of your own, based on multiple given passages, all dealing with similar subject matter. We'll do this in class on Tuesday.

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. - George Orwell, Animal Farm