For the next five or six weeks on Fridays, Natalie will be working on how to write an essay in response to an argumentative text. Today we worked through a sample using President Roosevelt's speech "Lease-Loan," and pre-write materials including structure and rhetorical devices (defined with examples) -- from which I made templates to do the same for her upcoming writing, and a final essay example. She completed a test on critical thinking based on the Roosevelt text -- she had an A. Natalie will read a commencement speech by John F. Kennedy this week, and next Friday she will complete another critical thinking test that analyzes Kennedy's speech, and the pre-write templates, in preparation for her essay response.