A Four-Minute Rant Lesson 27

Today’s Agenda SAT Question of the Day #12 Appeals in “Civil Disobedience” Finish Quote Integration notes Discuss Gandhi and Mandela Short Answer practice OBJECTIVE: Students will create a short answer response including required elements.

SAT Question of the Day #12 Depending on skillful suggestion, argument is seldom used in advertising. a) Depending on skillful suggestion, argument is seldom used in advertising. b) Argument is seldom used in advertising, which depends instead on skillful suggestion. c) Skillful suggestion is depended on by advertisers instead of argument. d) Suggestion, which is more skillful, is used in place of argument by advertisers. e) Instead of suggestion, depending on argument is used by skillful advertisers.

FROM the SELECTION APPEAL “The objections which have been brought against a standing army…may also at last be brought against a standing government…Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.” “Thus, under the name of order and civil government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support [the State’s] own meanness. After the first blush of sin, comes its indifference and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral…” “As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have spite, will abuse his dog.”

Quote Integration

the rules Integrate all quotes. Incorporate quotes into your own sentence structure Do not begin the sentence with a quote. Without context, quotes confuse the reader. Integrated quotes MUST be grammatically correct. Use the “he said” form sparingly. Place commas and periods inside ending quote marks. ALWAYS!!! ALWAYS!!! ALWAYS!!!

How to do it: 1. Introduce the quote 2. State the quote 3. Explain the quote To understand the book, it is important to know it was written after slaves were given freedom and many fled to cities in the north to find employment, education and opportunities. According to critic James Cooper, “Bigger represents the exodus of southern blacks who left the south for their promise land, the promise land of the Negro spirituals” (144). Sadly, Wright understood that many blacks found trouble and not salvation in the northern promise land and he uses the misfortunes of Bigger to illustrate that reality. #1 #2 #3

Gandhi and Mandela

Gandhi 1. What was the basis of Gandhi’s civil disobedience? (Hint: Read the Building Background section in order to answer this question.) 2. What are the three ways salt laws can be violated? 3. What is the purpose of violating the salt laws? 4. What are the three qualities needed for men to rise up as leaders? 5. What are five ways the individual can fight injustice? 6. What should people, who are cooperating with the Government, do? 7. How do Gandhi’s ideas about individuality and reform compare to Thoreau’s?

Mandela 8. What was the basis of Mandela’s civil disobedience? (Hint: Read the Building Background section in order to answer this question.) 9. Analyze Mandela’s use of description in the paragraph beginning with “A few moments later…” To which senses does this passage appeal? 10. Why does Mandela find it ironic that the generals are saluting him? 11. What does Mandela mean by “The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” 12. How does Mandela argue that oppression affects more than just the person is oppressed?

Short Answer

Short Answer Response Choose two of the selections about civil disobedience that we have read (“Civil Disobedience” and “On the Eve of Historic Dandi March” and “Long Walk to Freedom”). Compare and contrast the writer’s attitude toward government. What do each believe? What kind of government do they desire? How do you know this? Provide evidence from the texts. You must incorporate quotes into your answer.

Self Check Circle the authors’ full names. Circle the titles of the essays. Are they written correctly? Circle and label your thesis. Does it address both similarities and differences between the two authors? Highlight and label your evidence – specific quotes. Label your introduction in one color, the actual quote in a second color, and your explanation in a third color.

Short Answer Choose two of the selections about civil disobedience that we have read (“Civil Disobedience” and “On the Eve of Historic Dandi March” and “Long Walk to Freedom”). Compare and contrast the writer’s attitude toward government. What do each believe? What kind of government do they desire? How do you know this? Provide evidence from the texts. You must incorporate quotes into your answer. BEFORE TURNING IN: Circle the authors’ full names. Circle the titles of the essays. Are they written correctly? Circle and label your thesis. Does it address both similarities and differences between the two authors? Highlight and label your evidence – specific quotes. Label your introduction in one color, the actual quote in a second color, and your explanation in a third color.

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