Agenda Class Description Language and Critical Standards Persuasion in our History
Class Description Assignments Getting the grade Learning by Doing
Canons of Rhetoric Invention ethos pathos logos Arrangement Style Delivery Memory
Burkean Analysis Wherever there is identification, there is communication Wherever there is communication there is persuasion
Burkean Analysis: The Dramatistic Pentad Act Scene Agent (actor) Purpose Agency
Persuasion in Our History Nation Nearly Founded on Argument How to respond to the Muslim halt to overland trade 1340 The African route Argument about the location of Asia
Persuasion in Our History Columbus’ argument from ego “admiral of the ocean sea” Viceroy of all claimed lands 10% of all revenues
Mercatur 1569
Development
The Pilgrims
The Purchase of Manhattan
Declaration Draft