Part 4 – Rhetorical Analysis
Wendy Berliner is an author and award-winning journalist. She has written two educational books called “Great Mind and How to Grow Them” and “How to Succeed at School”. She is a joint CEO of the Education Media Centre. Berliner writes for educational reasons to help children and adults succeed too. Berliner wrote his article to expose what is happening in the school systems and how they are trying to kill the curiosity of young children. She is trying to show us that children don’t like asking questions anymore because the teacher has killed their ability to, saying “NO right now its learning time”. She provides many valid reasons and evidence to support her claim. This genre is the best to address her claim because she uses research and information to support her, and she adds images to help the reader feel the emotion she wants us to feel. You can determine the author’s tone by the images she uses and the information/research.
Part 5 – Notable Quotables
- “In one lesson she observed, a ninth grader raised her hand to ask if there were any places in the world where no one made art. The teacher stopped her mid-sentence with, “Zoe, no questions now, please; it’s time for learning.” (Berliner 3)
- When her team logged classroom questions, she found the youngest children in an American suburban elementary school asked between two and five questions in a two-hour period. Even worse, as they got older the children gave up asking altogether. There were two-hour stretches in fifth grade (year 6) where 10 and 11-year-olds failed to ask their teacher a single question. (Berliner 3)
- But research from Susan Engel, author of The Hungry Mind and a leading international authority on curiosity in children, finds questioning drops like a stone once children start school. When her team logged classroom questions, she found the youngest children in an American suburban elementary school asked between two and five questions in a two-hour period. Even worse, as they got older the children gave up asking altogether.” (Berliner 2)
Hi Joshua, your rhetorical analysis starts off strong but it declines towards the end. I feel like the end of your paragraph is very vague with some of the answers of the questions from the organizer. Like when you say that the images in the article are structured in an intentional way that Berliner wants the reader to feel, but you don’t specify what the feeling is. Also, some of your quotables are missing their quotation marks.
Hi joshua the beginning of your rhetorical analysis is really good but you start to miss someone of the important parts you need to include in ur rhetorical analysis. It isn’t bad you were off to a great start i just think it’ll be better if you included more and also fixed the errors in your spelling.