1. Unit 4: The Power of Language
Part 3: The rhetoric Puzzle
Day 3: April 19, 2017

2. starter
Copy the following sentences into ln. Place one line under the subject, two lines under the verb. Place brackets around each verbal or verbal phrase, identify the type of verbal, and record its use in the sentence.
Michael phelps holds the record for winning Olympic medals.
To enter the contest, students must be under fifteen years of age.
Sweeping the floor, mark commented about the horrible eating habits of his team members.

3. homework Read independently.
Answer question from dok calendar in journal.
Review notes.
Memorize terms and definitions.
Complete textual analysis activity if not completed in class.
Reading scrapbook due may 4, 2017.

4. Rhetoric Analysis: speeches
Review the characteristics of powerful speech.
Discuss:
1. Why would one consider figurative language and word choices to be such useful tools in a speech?
2. How can figurative language help a speaker get his or her point across?

5. “Eulogy for martyred children”
Yesterday When students were asked to identify a powerful speech, many cited “I Have a Dream” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today we will analyze a different speech by Dr. King, “Eulogy for Martyred children”.
This eulogy cannot be found on video for it was delivered in a church. It is a powerful speech to show MLK’s use of figurative language as a means to help the audience connect to visuals.
Introduction Video
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7. Here Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Here Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stands at the pulpit giving this eulogy.
The famous civil rights leader delivered the eulogy at the funeral service for the young victims of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing where he named them martyrs.
A martyr is defined as a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs. A martyr may endure great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause. How can a child be a martyr?

8. About the Author: Martin Luther King Jr
About the Author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), born in Atlanta, Georgia, was ordained a Baptist minister in 1954 and received his doctorate from Boston University in 1955.
King was instrumental in the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 and he advocated nonviolence in the Civil Rights movement.
King served as a major organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956 and the March on Washington in He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, but four years later he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
The civil rights movement was a mass popular movement in society to secure equal rights, equal opportunities and equal access to any place for anyone!
Civil rights are the rights of the people and African Americans wanted all of the basic rights and privileges that a U.S. citizen is supposed to have.
Although the roots, or beginnings, of the movement go back to the 19th century, it peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.

9. Denise McNair, 11, Carole Robertson, 14, Addie Mae Collins, 14, and Cynthia Dianne Wesley, 14, were killed on Sept. 15, 1963 when a bomb was thrown into the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.

10. “Eulogy for the martyred children”
First read: Read the text independently.
Second read: read again, and now focus on phrases that are positive and negative. Mark phrases with a + for positive, and a – for negative
When finished record how many negatives and how many positives.
Third read: What makes this speech powerful? Analyze for metaphors this time. Record all the ones you find In LN. How many could you find?
Rank your top five metaphors and explain what makes them so powerful.