1. March 23 - STARTER
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand
DO YOU THINK SUCH A SOCIETY WILL EVER EXIST?

2. Quick Review
Explain the following:
1. Ethos
2. Pathos
3. Logos

3. Rhetorical Analysis

4. Rhetorical Analysis
Rhetoric is a technique of using language persuasively in spoken or written form.
Purpose: Used in advertising, politics, writing, and any other situation where you are attempting to persuade an audience.

5. Used in writing to persuade an audience or reader
2.Rhetorical Devices
Used in writing to persuade an audience or reader

6. 3. Anaphora:
Definition: repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases
Example: We shall overcome, we shall be victorious, we shall triumph over our enemies!

7. 4. Euphemism:
Definition: Substitution of a milder or less direct expression for one that is harsh or blunt
Example: Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.

8. 5. Connotation:
Definition: What is negatively or positively associated with a word/phrase
Example: Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.

9. 6. Tone : Definition: Author’s attitude toward the subject
Example (Malcolm X Speech) : Well, I am one who doesn't believe in deluding myself. I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
What is his tone?

10. 7. Metaphor : Definition: Direct comparison
Example (Martin Luther King Jr. Speech) One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

11. 8. Allusion :
Definition: brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object to apply a symbolic meaning Example (George Bush) "And I can pledge our nation to a goal: When we see that wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, we will not pass to the other side."

12. 9. Argument :
Definition: a set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong Example: WOMEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN MILITARY COMBAT.

13. 10. Counterargument :
Definition: a set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea developed in another argument.
Example WOMEN SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO PARTICPATE IN MILITARY COMBAT.

14. 11. Claim:
Definition: an arguable statement Example: Women are not as physically as men.

15. 12. Counterclaim:
Definition: brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object to apply a symbolic meaning Example: Women can be as physically as men.

16. EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY

17. EINSTEIN VS. STEPHEN HAWKING DR. SUESS VS. SHAKESPEARE

18. Trump’s Travel Ban…
TUG OF WAR!!!

19. INSTRUCTIONS: As a class, read articles.
Consider all claims and counterclaims.
Choose a position.
Write three reasons for why you have taken that position onto the post-it notes.
Post the post-it notes on the board.