1. Unit 4: The Power of Language
Part 3: The rhetoric Puzzle
Unit 4 Part 3 Day 6
May 30, 2017

2. homework Read independently.
Answer question from dok calendar in journal. June 2, 2017
Quiz on “Eulogy of the Martyred Children” May 31, 2017
Memorize terms and definitions, verbals.
Complete any unfinished work from today’s class activity.
JFK Speech - Annotate
Reading scrapbooks due June 9, 2017.
homework

3. In LN, address the following prompt:
Does the rhetorical triangle relate only to famous speakers and formal speeches?
Can it relate to everyday conversations as well? What about television (newscasters, reporters)?
Explain the reasons for your position, including examples. (remember the power of ethos, pathos, and logos as you write!)
starter

4. TV/Advertising – SPCA commercials, anti-smoking ads, infomercials, medicine commercials, injury lawyers, poverty/children/childhood cancer commercials, MAD, life alert, celebrity endorsements
News – Trump/politics, late-night shows, tragic news, sharing confidential news, tabloid news, lies, broadcasting from warzones, terrorist acts
Everyday conversation – arguments, excuses, gossip, complaining, parent/child conversations,
Examples

5. Copy the following sentences into ln
Copy the following sentences into ln. Place one line under the subject, and two lines under the verb or verb phrase of the sentence. Place all verbals and verbals phrases in brackets, identify the type of verbal/verbal phrase, and tell how it is used in the sentence.
After losing the championship game, the heartbroken team boarded the bus for the long ride home.
To survive the harsh arctic winter was a challenging feat for the explorers.
Four former students were charged for breaking into the vending machines.
Practice with verbals

6. John Fitzgerald kennedy
Today we will get background information about JFK in anticipation of another speech. Take notes in ln on the following slides.
Turn to your partner and share what you know about JFK.
John Fitzgerald kennedy

7. John F. Kennedy pictured during his Inaugural Speech

8. Ted Sorenson about Kennedy: “He believed in the power and glory of words—both written and spoken—to win votes, to set goals, to change minds, to move nations.”
(Sorenson was Kennedy’s speech writer. Notice the similarity of style in this quotation and the subsequent quotes taken from Kennedy’s speeches.)

9. Context of the Speech Kennedy was inaugurated on January 20, 1961.
This period in history is marked by the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War.
Kennedy’s Campaign Slogan: “New Generation Offers A Leader”

10. Background of the Speech: 5 Events
Europe 1939:
“…each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.”
“the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans”
“…we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
“ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”

11. Background of the Speech: 5 Events
2. Pacific 1943:
“Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.”

12. Background of the Speech: 5 Events
3. Berlin 1945:
“For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms… of human life.”
“…both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom”
“Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.”

13. Background of the Speech: 5 Events
4. Vietnam 1951: “…we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny.” “To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves” “Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind?”

14. Background of the Speech: 5 Events
5. West Virginia 1960: “For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty.” “…to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty.” “…a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself”

15. Background on the Speech: Historical Figures
JFK was extremely well read
Known to read through speeches by Churchill and FDR for entertainment
Committed many of them to memory
Wanted to make his speech as memorable and well received as historical figures of the past, including:
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

16. Rhetorical Tools Alliteration: Repetition: Personification:
“forebears fought”
“bear any burden”
Repetition:
“To those…”
“Let both sides…”
Personification:
American nation as “master of the house,” “the trumpet summons us”

17. Rhetorical Tools Continued
Antithesis: a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins”
Simplified complicated problems into simple choices providing a framework in which Americans could understand them.
We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

18. Copy and/or Review the terms and definitions in anticipation of reading the speech.
Analogy—a comparison between two things based on a similarity between the two
Contrast—the difference between two objects, people, or places
Language of demand or urgency—language promoting or insisting on a swift action
Tone—author’s attitude as evidenced by word choice and structure
Rhetorical question –a question in the text which does not need to be answered
Vocabulary

19. JFK’s Moon Speech First Read:
Read the speech independently. You may mark and annotate the text to aid comprehension. Complete First Read for homework if not completed in class.
JFK’s Moon Speech