Bellwork 11/16-11/17  Imagine that Mr. Nolan has just announced that we will immediately be discontinuing all extracurricular activities at Riverdale High School.At this point you are unsure how you feel about this decision. What information would be NECESSARY to persuade you to side with Mr. Nolan’s decision?  List examples of information on the board. Categorize as emotional or logical

Common Core Standards-Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention”  RI 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.  RI 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.

Objectives:  Differentiate between emotional and logical persuasion  Identify and evaluate forms of persuasion as rhetorical devices in historical speeches.

Essential Question  How do writers effectively utilize rhetorical devices in persuasive writing?

Persuasion This assignment is # 10 in your notebook

 Whenever you read an argument or speech, you must ask yourself “Is this persuasive? And if so, to whom?”

 There are several ways to appeal to an audience.  Among these are appealing to logos(logic) and pathos(emotion)

Logos(Logic)  The Greek word logos is the basis for the English word logic.  Logical persuasion: uses reasons, facts, and examples to support an idea or claim  Logical persuasion appeals to the intellect.

Pathos (emotional)  Pathos is related to the words pathetic, sympathy, and empathy.  Whenever you accept an argument based on how it makes you feel without fully analyzing the rationale behind the claim, you are acting on pathos.  Emotional appeal: tugs at people’s hearts, hopes, and dreams.  Some of these emotions may be love, fear, patriotism, guilt, hate, joy, or faith.

Persuasion (#11 in notebook) President Bush September 11 th Speech September 20, 2001

 Play President Bush’s speech from You Tube(13 minutes)  Read along while you listen  Highlight examples of emotional persuasion in pink  Highlight examples of logical persuasin in yellow

Guided Practice  Pass out white boards  Get out dry erase markers  I will show an example of persuasion-on your white board, write whether the example is logical or emotional

 Tonight we face new and sudden national challenges. We will come together to improve air safety, to dramatically expand the number of air marshals on domestic flights and take new measures to prevent hijacking. logical

 And you did more than sing. You acted, by delivering $40 billion to rebuild our communities and meet the needs of our military.  logical

 America will never forget the sounds of our national anthem playing at Buckingham Palace, on the streets of Paris and at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.  emotional

 Americans have known wars, but for the past 136 years they have been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in Americans have known the casualties of war, but not at the center of a great city on a peaceful morning.  logical

 Americans are asking, "What is expected of us?"  I ask you to live your lives and hug your children.  emotional

 They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self- appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.  logical

Independent Practice  You will need: highlighter, speech, notebook paper  Read Patrick Hanry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention” as a group  Highlight all examples of emotional persuasion in pink.  Highlight all examples of logical persuasion in another yellow.  Choose the best TWO EXAMPLES of logical and emotional to be turned in-each person must turn in a paper.(Do not turn in until the end of class-write your exit ticket on this, also)  Write these examples on THE BIG PAPER

Exit Ticket  Reflection and Lesson Closure: Were you more convinced by Henry’s appeals to logic or by his appeals to emotion? Why?(Group discussion) What conclusions can you draw about the art of persuasion after reading Martin Luther King and Patrick Henry.(write 1 paragraph to be turned in)

 The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.  emotional

 “Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall hope, until our enemies shall have us bound hand and foot?” we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom…  emotional

 For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate  emotional

 Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, …”  emotional

 I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House.  logical

 Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?  logical

 Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other.  logical

 They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.  emotional

 And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.  logical

 Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, …  logical

 If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending—  emotional

 An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!  emotional

. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?  logical

 Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.  emotional

 Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.  emotional

 There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.  emotional

 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!  emotional