Eng 10 Q3 W1 Spring 2015

MLK’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail Unit Standards RI.10.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.RI.10.6 RI Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.RI RI.10.9 Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance including how they address related themes and concepts.RI.10.9

English 10 Do Now ( ) Make a list of any details you know about Martin Luther King Jr. Then, draw a line and define any of these terms: –Rhetoric –Ethos, Pathos, Logos –Allusions –Tone HW: terms handout finished

Letter from Birmingham Jail Did you know King was arrested, several times actually? One time he was arrested for standing up to an immoral law, and the white ministers in the area criticized him, saying he had poor timing. King came back at them in the piece we will read this week.

Success Today Means 1/12 Students will use technology to find definitions related to “Rhetoric” as well as find examples of rhetorical devices. Today we are learning what rhetoric is. We will use this knowledge to read and evaluate King’s letter. (It is very relevant to today’s world. I hope you will be able to tell me how)

Eng 10 DO NOW 1/13/15 Use your G.O. from yesterday to identify these rhetorical devices: 1. “One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.” 2. “From the torrent, or the fountain— From the red cliff of the mountain— From the sun that ’round me roll’d ” 3. “Turn the other cheek”

Success Today Means 1/13 Students review their rhetorical terms, tone and argument. Students will look for these elements while reading the letter today in class. Students will also practice annotating. You know you are successful when: You have notes for all our terms, and have annotated the letter focusing on King’s argument and rhetoric. HW: Read till P376. Answer A-D

How to Find Tone 1. Pay attention to diction 2. Look at imagery 3. Watch for changes in these two (tone shift) Examples of tone in a story include just about any adjective you can imagine: Scared Anxious Excited Worried Foolish Smart Depressing

And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.

MLK’s Letter Argument= claim + support. Although long, the letter is an argument where King makes one major claim, then breaks the claim down into main ideas and supports those ideas with evidence, details, examples, etc.

Tuesday: background – –Model annotating –Practice together

Success Today Means 1/13 Students review their rhetorical terms, tone and argument. Students will look for these elements while reading the letter today in class. Students will also practice annotating. You know you are successful when: You have notes for all our terms, and have annotated the letter focusing on King’s argument and rhetoric. HW: Read till p376. Answer A-D

English 10 Do Now ( ) Take out your notes for “Tone.” Take out your MLK Letter: Look back over the first few paragraphs. How would you describe MLK’s tone so far? Remember he has been thrown in jail for BS. Is this how you expected him to sound? Cite a couple examples of his word choices that support your claim.

Success Today Means 1/14 You annotated each paragraph we read, especially the main idea of each paragraph. You read actively and ask questions when confused. HW: read Annotate Answer E-G.

English 10 Do Now ( ) In your own words, what is King’s argument? (Be specific. Think about the different things he discussed) What are a few of his main ideas?

Success Today Means 1/15 Students continue their analysis of MLK by annotating today’s reading and answering the guiding margin questions HW: Finish reading. COMPLETE pg All marginal questions A-J and “Pause and Reflects.” (You should have comments/ questions/ symbol annotations throughout the letter.)

Eng 10 DO NOW 1/16/15 What does it mean to “evaluate” something? To analyze something? ELITE: Why analyze something? What can be gained/learned from analyzing?

Success Today Means 1-16 You develop your understanding of Kings main idea/The Central Focus of this letter by completing Step 3 & 4 handouts. Next week, you will be assigned one rhetorical element from the Letter to analyze and present! HW from this week will be checked on Tuesday Do Nows Turn in Tuesday