Today we... Wrote! Please see below for our writing prompt. Received our two giant reading packets for our non-fiction unit. (PDFs will be posted shortly.) We read our first non-fiction piece, "The Unknown Rebel" by Pico Iyer, which is about the Tank Man/Lone Man standing up to Chinese government tanks in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989 (side-note: this was Mrs. Hopkins' 10th birthday; she remembers watching this event on television).
We then explored some of the uses of rhetoric in the article. We mostly focused on diction (word choice) in a single paragraph of the text (on the second page, the second column, the second sentence: "In the unnatural quiet after the massacre, with the six-lane streets eerily empty and a burned-out bus along the road, it fell to the tank man to serve as the last great defender of the peace, an Unknown Soldier in the struggle for human rights."
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