NO DOL TODAY Be ready to take the Parallel Structure Quiz once the bell rings. Place your Paine chart face down on the corner of your desk (I will check them whilst administering the quiz).
Vocabulary Practice Although university students in China have pressed for social change, their influence has been _____________ because they represent such a small percentage of the population. Setting up their productions on wagons, _______________ acting companies in the Middle Ages moved from town to town, performing in churches or village squares. You can conjugate the six tenses of the verb swim, swam, swum by following this _______________: “you lie, you lay, you will lie, you have lain, you had lain, you will have lain.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman sees the following situation as a(n) __________________: “The women who do the most work get the least money, but the women who have the most money do the least work.” After her fiance’s death in World War I, Vera Brittain recalled the ______________ happinesss of her youth in a poem that concludes, “I thought that spring must last for evermore, / For I was young and loved, and it was May.”
Revolutionary Literature
Reasons for Revolution There were actually many reasons for the initiation of the American Revolution. A few of the main reasons, however, were: British Oppression Caused the states to unify One common enemy means one common goal The Enlightenment The rise of rationalism The Great Awakening
British Oppression Taxation without representation Stated that they had the authority to make any law they chose in America Because of this, the Americans were able to unify with one common goal.
Enlightenment Movement that swept America and Europe in the 1700s Enlightenment thinkers began to question previously accepted truths about who should hold the power in government. Paved the way for government by the people. People should consent to government limitations in exchange for the government’s protection of their basic rights and liberties. Rise of rationalism- views based upon reason and logic (before this, their views were solely based upon religion) Key figures included Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Paine.
The First Great Awakening Response to the Enlightenment Many believed that the nation was drifting dangerously away from the Puritan principles which it was founded upon Many people were religiously revived and instilled with Puritan values This aided the initiation of the Revolution due to the Puritanical emphasis on the power and significance of the individual. “Every man is equal”
Writing of the Revolution Most Revolutionary writers were political writers who wrote propaganda and political pamphlets. Thomas Jefferson- The Declaration of Independence The Constitution of the United States of America
Thomas Paine Wrote “Common Sense” Wrote “The Crisis” Used rationalistic as well as Puritanical ideals in order to propel the Revolution. Wrote “The Crisis” Used different appeals to persuade Americans to fight for liberty.
What Type of Appeal? THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER," and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.
Emotional Evidence: Loaded language Shrink Love Tyranny Glorious Triumph Heaven Celestial Slavery God
What Type of Appeal? I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils; and as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain can look up to heaven for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a house-breaker, has as good a pretence as he.
Emotional and Ethical Evidence for emotional Evidence for ethical Loaded language Murderer Highwayman Housebreaker Evidence for ethical I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain can look up to heaven for help against us. God almighty will not give up a people to military destruction… who so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war…
What Type of Appeal? I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, "Well! give me peace in my day." Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;" and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty
Ethical Evidence Ought A generous parent would have said, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace”
Take Phones Out Can you think of any modern day examples of people who use emotional, ethical, or logical appeals?
Colbert Roasts Bush http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7FTF4Oz4dI
Compare/Contrast In groups, discuss which appeals Colbert uses in his speech. Do not forget that you must have evidence to prove a certain type of appeal. On the back of your T. Paine chart, draw a Venn Diagram. Compare the appeals and tone of Colbert with the appeals and tone of either Adams or Paine.