AP Language and Composition– 10/09/14 Bell Ringer: Just write! Focus word: ESSENTIAL (adjective) = extremely important and necessary; very basic Today’s Agenda: Current event – Who wants to present Friday? What about next week? Finish going over answers to the fragments packet Get into partners from last week and continue reading and analyzing the speech or essay you were assigned HW: None

Partners and readings: Denzel and Farah – JFK – Inaugural Address – starts on p. 549 Kayla and Sage – Tom Hayden – The Port Huron Statement – starts on p. 560 Nakiya and Craig – Rachel Carson – Silent Spring – starts on p. 565 Daniel and Alyssa – MLK Jr. – Letter from Birmingham City Jail – starts on p. 568 Ahdreanna and Deprice – JFK – Speech at the Berlin Wall – starts on p. 576 Emmanuel and Demonte – Johnson –Howard University Address – starts on p. 593 Adam and Jerry – Robert Kennedy – On the Death of MLK Jr. – starts on p. 597 Ayishat and Jameale –Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique - starts on p. 589

Presentation handouts : Section 1: Overview – In your own words, explain what you believe the purpose of the speech was. What was the writer’s exigence? Who was their intended audience? Section 2: Key Quotes – Select and correctly copy at least four key quotes that you feel are necessary to understand this speech and be persuaded by it. After copying each quote, interpret it in your own words and connect it back to the purpose / exigence of the speech. Section 3: Connection to Solidarity – As we discussed, speeches are often used to foster solidarity (a feeling of unity between people who have the same interests, goals, etc.). In your opinion, what was this writer trying to create solidarity around? Was he or she successful? Section 4: Focus on the appeals – give at least two examples of how the appeals were used in this text. Section 5: Style – Think about the rhetorical framework. What style tactics were most prominent in the text you read? Explain how.