This was the first major essay assignment of the year and we were allowed to write an argumentative essay on a topic related to education which was a topic we read about extensively. I choose to write about Academic Acceleration, as this is a topic that is very important for me personally because of its impacts on my schooling. We were able to choose which side of the argument we wanted to support, and I chose to make a case for expanding Academic Acceleration. This assignment included extensive research into school policy across the US which made this essay a combination of Social Studies and English work.
The essay was written as an analysis of the use of satirical techniques in a text or video of our choice. I chose the last chapter of Animal Farm by George Orwell as the book features multiple levels of satirical devices which allows for varied approaches to analyze this text. This analysis was the culmination of almost two months of learning on satirical and rhetorical analysis.