PERSUASIONWed/Thurs

January 7/8

Bellringer Turn in your HW. Read Coretta Scott King’s speech. Recall

yesterday’s journal topic. Next, pairs reread the speech, filling in terms

around the SMART Chart. This activity involves both identifying examples of the rhetorical techniques and associating them with particular appeals (ethos, pathos, or logos).

For example, King says, “Morality is never upheld by legalized murder.” This is an example of using a word with a strong negative connotation (murder) for emotional effect, so you would write “connotation” on one of the spokes near pathos.

Objectives:

Identify and evaluate the effectiveness of speakers’ use of ethos, pathos, logos, and the rhetorical elements that contribute to them.

Analyze how perspective and purpose influence rhetorical choices and compare the effectiveness of rhetorical strategies in Brutus’s and Marc Antony’s speeches in Act 3, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar

Essential Questions:

How do writers and speakers persuade their audiences to adjust or change their positions?

How does the author’s perspective influence his/her rhetorical choices?

Standards:

RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.

SL3: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.

L3: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.

AGENDA We will analyze Brutus and Marc Antony’s speeches. We will start with Brutus. You will have a group task and an independent task. When you finish with Brutus’s speech, you will do the same with Marc Antony’s speech.

TERMS Synecdoche (Si-neck-da-key): A form of metaphor.

A part of something is used to signify the whole. Also, the reverse can be true where the whole can represent the part.

Canada played in the U.S. hockey finals. In reality, the Canadian team played the U.S. team, not the entire country.)

Another from involves the container representing the thing being contained. The pot is boiling. (In reality, the pot isn’t boiling, just the water in the pot.)

Also, it can involve the material form which an object is made standing for the object.

The quarterback tossed the pigskin. (The football is made of pigskin)

Claim/Counterclaim

Irony/Sarcasm (Tone)

Repetition

Parallel structure

Rhetorical questions

BRUTUS’S SPEECHWith a partner

Listen

Then, reread with small group and note the ethos, pathos, logos.

1. Highlight the elements with different colors to distinguish between them. (for example, yellow for ethos, green for pathos, etc.)

2. Circle the repeated words (repetition that helps create tone)

3. Underline the claim/counterclaim

4. Draw squiggles under examples of irony

5. Write question marks on the rhetorical questions

Independently

After completing the task with the group, you are now working independently:

Write a paragraph:

Evaluate the effectiveness of the rhetorical elements Brutus uses to justify his claim. YOU MUST use specific examples. If you were in the crowd, would his speech persuade you to support his position?

CONTEXT After Brutus speaks, Marc Antony and others bring in Caesar’s body. Brutus

tells the crowd that he and other conspirators have given Marc Antony permission to deliver Caesar’s eulogy.

MARC ANTONY’S SPEECHWith a partner

Listen

Then, reread with small group and note the ethos, pathos, logos.

Highlight the elements with different colors to distinguish between them. (for example, yellow for ethos, green for pathos, etc.)

Circle the repeated words (repetition that helps create tone)

Underline the claim/counterclaim

Draw squiggles under synecdoche

Write question marks on the rhetorical questions

Independently

After completing the task with the group, you are now working independently:

Write a paragraph in which you evaluate the effectiveness of the various rhetorical elements Marc Antony uses to discredit Brutus. YOU MUST include specific examples. If you were in a crowd, would his speech persuade you to support his position?