1. Bellringer: Feb. 25
Write this in your notebook. Currently, the RESPECT campaign is occurring. It used to be called “Spread the Word to End the Word.” It calls for tolerance and acceptance of those who are developmentally different. What rhetorical device does this campaign seem to rely on the most? What’s your evidence? If you aren’t sure about the campaign, listen to the announcements or talk to your partner.
PD 7 7:36-8:45
PD 9 8:50-9:40
PD 5 9:45-10:55
PD 3 11:00-12:55
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PD 1 1:00-2:15

2. Reading Goals Use reading guide to help analyze King’s approach.
Evaluate his use of ethos, logos, and pathos to see if his piece is more persuasive or argumentative.
Prepare to answer the question: How does MLK employ ethos, logos, and pathos in “A Letter From Birmingham Jail” to construct his message?
Here’s another LONGER video which incorporates both “A Call for Unity” and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” if you need some help at home: Univerity of Texas at Austin's video
Reading Goals

3. Getting Started. Window partner: read paragraph 1 out loud
Getting Started. Window partner: read paragraph 1 out loud. Answer the questions in your notes.
Window partner: Why is he writing this response?
Door partner: How does he specifically address the authors of “A Call for Unity”?

4. Going on… paragraph 2 Door partner: Read paragraph 2 out loud
Going on… paragraph 2 Door partner: Read paragraph 2 out loud. Answer the questions in your notes
Door partner: write a 10 word summary of this paragraph.
Window partner: Which vocabulary term matches most closely with this type of paragraph? (look on the bulletin board to your right – any of those words are fair game). Why is it this term?

5. Moving Forward: Window partner read paragraph 3 out loud: Answer the questions in your notes
Window partner: Why does he include all of these biblical references?
Door partner: Is this paragraph relying on ethos, logos, and/or pathos? WHY?
Preview “saith” Graeco-Roman, and Macedonian

6. Next. Paragraph 4: Door partner read out loud
Next! Paragraph 4: Door partner read out loud. Answer the questions in your notes
Door partner: What in “A Call for Unity” is MLK specifically rebutting?
Window partner: Why isn’t he an “outsider”?
Preview “cognizant” “agitator”

7. Oh snap. Paragraph 5 Window partner read out loud
Oh snap! Paragraph 5 Window partner read out loud. Answer the questions in your notes
Window partner: what is MLK’s criticism?
Door partner: Describe MLK’s tone here.
Together: does this paragraph rely on ethos, logos, and/or pathos? Why?
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8. Bellringer: Feb 27 (odd day classes)
Write this in your notes.
Why is it important for King to establish his ethos (credibility and moral character) early in his response?
What is the most effective way that he establishes his ethos (in the first 5 paragraphs)

9. Paragraphs 6-8 Door partner read out loud
Paragraphs 6-8 Door partner read out loud. Answer the questions in your notes
Door partner: What is the purpose for these paragraphs?
Window partner: What does King outline here?
Together: Do these paragraphs rely on ethos, logos, and/or pathos? Why?
(smudged line in para. 6)“Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying of the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community.”
(smudged line in para. 8) “Christian Movement for Human Rights agreed to call a moratorium on any type of demonstrations. As the weeks”
Preview “gainsaying”
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10. Paragraphs 9-10 Window partner read out loud
Paragraphs Window partner read out loud. Answer the questions in your notes
Window partner: 10 word summary of paragraph 9
Door partner: 10 word summary of paragraph 10
Together: How does he defend his choice to protest?
Together: Do these paragraphs rely on ethos, logos, and/or pathos? Why?

11. Paragraph 11 Door partner read out loud
Paragraph Door partner read out loud. Answer the questions in your notes
Door partner: 10 word summary of paragraph 11
Window partner: Which vocabulary term matches most closely with this type of paragraph? (look on the bulletin board to your right – any of those words are fair game). Why is it this term?
Smudged line in paragraph 11 “feel that the election of Mr. Boutwell will bring the millennium to Birmingham. While Mr. Boutwell is much”
Preview: futility and Reinhold Niebuhr

12. Paragraphs 12-13 Window partner read out loud
Paragraphs Window partner read out loud. Answer the questions in your notes
Window partner:10 word summary of paragraph 13
Door partner: Why is this a solid example of using Pathos?
Together: In the first 13 paragraphs, King focuses on the WHY and WHY NOW behind his current plan. Summarize his WHY and WHY NOW.
Smudged line: “according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the words [sic]"Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has “
Preview [sic]
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13. Bellringer: March 3
King uses parallel structure in the following lines from paragraph 13:
“The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet-like speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse and buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.”
How does his use of parallel structure create an effective comparison? What might be his purpose in using this comparison here?

14. Section 2 – 5 of “Letter from Birmingham” Continue reading, switching paragraphs. Complete the reading guide questions: IN YOUR NOTES – don’t write on my class copy of the questions. When we are finished, we will be having a class discussion of King’s letter. You will be prepared by reading the speech and answering the study guide questions.
Period 3 stopped after starting this section.

15. Smudged lines:
Para. 15 “harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human “
Para. 16 “majority compels a minority to follow that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.”
Para. 21B “but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in”
Para. 22 “progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is merely a”

16. Smudged Lines:
Para. 25 (page 5) “"somebodiness" that they have adjusted to segregation, and, of a few Negroes in the middle class who, because of”
Para. 25 (page 6)“action and refuse to support our nonviolent efforts, millions of Negroes, out of frustration and despair, will seek”
Para. 28 “that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to”
Para. 29 “has taken some significant stands on this issue. I commend you, Rev. Stallings, for your Christian stand on this past Sunday, in welcoming Negroes to your worship service on a non-segregated basis. I commend the Catholic”
Para. 34 “bright hills of creative protest?”

17. Smudged Lines:
Para. 36 “but big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end”
Para. 41 “I don't believe you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its angry violent dogs”
Para. 42 “Maybe Mr. Connor and his policemen have been rather publicly nonviolent, as Chief Pritchett was in Albany, Georgia, but they have used the moral means of nonviolence to maintain the immoral end of flagrant racial”

18. Discussion:
How does King create his ethos for his intended audience? Why can he not rely on his credentials and leadership roles?
How does King create a logical argument throughout his response?
How does King use pathos effectively? (effectively means not too much, not too little)

19. Answer the lesson question if you finish reading everything and completing the questions.
How does MLK employ ethos, logos, and pathos in “A Letter From Birmingham Jail” to construct his message?