Changing the Status Quo
For my class Rhetoric, we are learning about many different Rhetorical situations and used many rhetorical devices. We have been to many places all over Chicago and we've been all over Chicago visiting different places to find rhetorical situations that we can relate to the class. For this Action Project we have to pick a timely topic and write an op-ed about it. For my Op-ed I picked the 2019 CPS strike. For this Op-ed I am on the teacher's side. I found it difficult to get between 650 to 750 words because I found that everything I wrote was useful to write my op-ed but finally found something I could remove to get the right amount. After finishing I realized I enjoyed writing this and that I found out a lot about the strike that I didn't know from doing this Action Project. Teachers take to the streets outside City Hall during a downtown rally on...