1. Bellwork
Directions: 1) Copy the sentence. 2) Correct the errors in the sentence. 3) Underline the words or phrases that provide clues to the meaning of the word in bold. 4) Come up with a definition for the word in bold.
His behavior becomes so boorish, when he hangs out with Steve “You’re acting like a Neanderthal ” I tell him.

2. Unit 3: Age of Reason In the end
Annotate all the rhetorical devices and strategies used in a speech
Use these same devices and strategies in your speech
Ace the test

3. Age of Reason: Quick and Dirty
Events
French and Indian War  Britain needed $$
attempted to collect taxes from colonies
Boston Massacre
declared independence
stage was set for war
Literature
politics
public
newspapers, pamphlets, magazines, and speeches
independence
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Ben Franklin

4. Who’s the best?
Jonathan Edwards – “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Patrick Henry – “Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Benjamin Franklin – “Speech in the Convention”
Thomas Paine – American Crisis #1

5. Look For… Appeal to friendly Repetition Appeal to hostile Restatement
Rhetorical Devices: alliteration, anadiplosis, anaphora, antithesis, ayndeton, chiasmus, epistrophe, paradox, syllepsis, tautology
Appeal to friendly
Appeal to hostile
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
Motif
Allusion
Call to action
Other?
Repetition
Restatement
Parallelism
Rhetorical Question
Hypophora
Concession to Counterargument
Rebuttal of Counterargument

6. Four Corners
Choose a corner based on who you think is the best persuasive speaker.
Your corner has 1 minute to develop your opening argument.
After all the opening arguments have been shared, we will start with rebuttals.
If at any time, you are swayed by an argument, move to that corner.
The corner with the most constituents wins.