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Entry Task – visuals!

• Look at pictures

• Answer questions on your Entry Task

LyddieLearning Objectives

I can determine one of Chávez’s main claims and identify the supporting evidence for it.

I can identify basic rhetorical strategies and analyze how Chávez used them to develop his claims.

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Point 1:Chávez asserts that farmworkers face difficult and unfair living conditions and working conditions.

Point 2: Chávez decided to organize the union to empower the workers in particular and the Chicano people in general.

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Commonwealth Club Address• “Rhetorical strategies?”

• Rhetorical toolbox

• Persuasive writers use different tools than essayists or journalists

LyddieDefinitions

Copy on top of the Rhetoric Toolbox sheet

rhetoric: the art of trying to persuade someone

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Rhetorical toolbox – look at par # 2

• Use powerful words and phrases:

• Emotionally charged language

Examples?

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Rhetorical toolbox – Par. 2• Why does Chávez use these motional

words?

• How does it make his audience feel?

• Why would he BEGIN his speech this way?

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Commonwealth Club Address• Left side= 5 or less (gist) each

paragraph

• Right side= “HOW he’s saying it”

• Par. 2: With emotionally charged language to engage the audience and build empathy (feeling).

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Commonwealth Club Address • Right side= “HOW he’s saying it”

• You and shoulder partner, try paragraph 3

• What rhetorical tool is he using?• How do you know?• What does the tool do?

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Commonwealth Club Address • Right side= “HOW he’s saying it”

• Par. 3: He is using statistics to make a logical appeal to back up the emotional one.

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Commonwealth Club Address • Right side= “HOW he’s saying it”

• You and shoulder partner, try paragraph 5

• What rhetorical tool is he using?• How do you know?• What does the tool do?

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Commonwealth Club Address • Right side= “HOW he’s saying it”

• Par. 5: He is showing he is credible (trustworthy). He lived it, so he knows it.

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Commonwealth Club Address • Right side= “HOW he’s saying it”

• You and shoulder partner, try paragraph 8

• What rhetorical tool is he using?• How do you know?• What does the tool do?

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Commonwealth Club Address • Right side= “HOW he’s saying it”

• Par. 8: He is asking rhetorical questions (he doesn’t want them answered by the crowd). This helps him lead people to a conclusion.

LyddieDefinitions

Copy on bottom of the Rhetoric Toolbox sheet

rhetorical question: a question someone uses to make a statement, and not get an answer

Examples: Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? Is the sky blue? Why not?

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Commonwealth Club Address • Paragraph 8 - Listen as I read aloud

• Why does Chavez argue that it is logical for the Hispanic movement to start with the farmworkers?

• How does asking questions help him develop this claim?

• What other strategies are in this paragraph?

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Commonwealth Club Address • Paragraph 9 - Listen as I read aloud

• What lines have a counterclaim?

• Highlight or circle the counterclaim

• Why would he include a counterclaim?

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Text-Dependent Questions

• AT THE WEFT THREADS partners

• Re-read paragraphs # 8-15

• Answer questions as you go

• Raise your hands for help!

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Point 1:Chávez asserts that farmworkers face difficult and unfair living conditions and working conditions.

Point 2: Chávez decided to organize the union to empower the workers in particular and the Chicano people in general.

LyddieHomework

Homework• Add to the Structure Anchor Chart

paragraphs 8-18 (Main claim and connection)

• Independent Reading Book (15-20 min)