American Literature

Statistics Emotional Appeal Analogy Opening Rhetorical Questions Repetition Bandwagon Match rhetorical devices The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! At the beginning of a speech about fire safety, the speaker tells a short cautionary tale about a serious injury that occurred as a result of not following protocol.

Statistics Emotional Appeal Analogy Opening Rhetorical Questions Repetition Bandwagon Match rhetorical devices Power lines cause cancer. I met a little boy with cancer who lived just 20 miles from a power line who looked into my eyes and said, in his weak voice, “Please do whatever you can so that other kids won’t have to go through what I am going through “But when shall we be stronger? Will it be next week, or the next year?” Just as a caterpillar comes out of its cocoon, so we must come out of our comfort zone.

Unit 1 How are writers influenced by the social, political, and philosophical ideas of their time? What are the effects of persuasive techniques used in writing?

Learning Targets CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.3 Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.

Learning Targets CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.5 Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.6 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.

Take out your chart from earlier this week and continue… Text Pg. & Para. Quote Rhetorical Device Patrick Henry’s Speech in the Virginia Convention The Patriot Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine Bio page 111 Declaration of Independence page 112 American Crisis

Argumentative Essay Analyze the rhetorical devices used and the claims made by Patrick Henry in his Speech at the Virginia Convention, Mel Gibson in The Patriot, and those within Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence. Using specific references to the texts and documenting their supports, you will choose two texts and discuss which would have had a greater effect on colonists’ perspective of the burgeoning country, had all the people been exposed to both writings.

Performance Tasks Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence Recall: What are some reasons Jefferson gives for the colonists demanding independence? Evaluate: How would Jefferson’s use of language and this particular structure affect the king? Synthesize/Evaluate: (Performance Task): Think about an institution or place you are pressured to attend or may be even forced to go. It may be home, church, school etc. Consider your audience and using Jefferson’s inalienable rights of man and his structure, write your own Declaration of Independence from that particular institution.