Based on the new AP Language and Composition curriculum, this unit focuses on identifying and analyzing the basic components of the rhetorical situation: exigence, purpose, audience, writer, context, and message. Focusing on the influence of language in a given circumstance, this unit is rooted in the work of George Orwell - his novels, essays, and letters. Students for my particular classes would have already read 1984 for their summer reading assignment; however, I include an excerpt from Orwe