1. Bell Ringer 5/29
Please get out your Crash Course graphic organizer so that we can finish watching the video. 1

2. Bell Ringer 5/29
Please get out your Crash Course Graphic Organizer, a piece of composition paper, and a writing utensil.
Please set up your composition paper for a type 2 writing.
Hint: the format is on the white (beige?) board.
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3. Bell Ringer 5/29
Please get out your Crash Course Graphic Organizer and your type 2 writing so that we can discuss them and hand them in.
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4. Bell Ringer 5/29
Please get out your books, your Patrick Henry Activity, and a writing utensil.
Turn to pg. 187 in your text books. 9

5. English III
EQ: How do Henry and Franklin use persuasive appeals and rhetorical devices to persuade effectively while anticipating the audience’s knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases?
Agenda
Bell Ringer/Discussion
Agenda/EQ
Benjamin Franklin’s “Speech in the Convention” (pg. 191)
Crash Course: The Constitution
Type 2 Writing & Graphic Organizer
Reading Benjamin Franklin’s Bio (pg. 184)
Reading Franklin’s “Speech in the Convention”
Analysis Activity
Type 3 Writing Activity

6. Persuasive Speech Vocab
Persuasive Appeals
Emotional Appeal (Pathos) – an appeal to emotion
Logical Appeal (Logos) – an appeal to logic or reason
Ethical Appeal (Ethos) – an appeal to credibility or character, sometimes based on expertise

7. Persuasive Speech Vocab
Rhetorical Devices
Restatement: repeating an idea in a variety of ways
Repetition: restating an idea using the same words
Parallelism: repeating grammatical structures (often appears in a list)
Rhetorical question: asking a question whose answer is self-evident

8. Persuasive Speech Vocab
Bias = prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

9. Analyzing Commercial Example
Get into a group of 3.
You need 1 piece of composition paper for your group.
Watch the Free Credit Report Commercial and answer the question.
Who is the target audience?
What rhetorical devices are used? How do they make the commercial more effective?
What persuasive appeals are used? How are these appeals targeted at a particular audience?
Write in full sentences and be specific.

10. Crash Course Graphic Organizer
In the first column, define the following terms from the video
Articles of Confederation, Shays’ Rebellion, Federalist, Anti-Federalist, Constitution, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, The Federalist Papers
In the second column, list the issues or concerns associated with that term

11. Crash Course Type 2
In 1 paragraph, describe The United States’ journey from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution.
Use four of the eight terms from your graphic organizer in your explanation.

12. Outlining Our Type 2 Writing
Please find a partner.
On the back of your Crash Course Graphic:
Outline the United States’ journey from the Articles to the Constitution.
Start with the articles and what went wrong.
Describe the difficult process of creating the constitution:
Who was for it? Who was against it? How did they resolve their issues?
The last event should be the ratification of the Constitution.
Make a bulleted list.

13. Benjamin Franklin’s Bio
As we read Franklin’s Bio on pg. 184, think about the following question:
Why would Franklin be a good person to make an ethical appeal?

14. Type 3 Collins Writing
Write a brief speech (1 page, front and back – skip lines).
Persuade your classmates to support you in your quest to change one element of our school life – rules, culture, environment, etc.
FCA #1: Chose an idea that you feel passionate about and support your claim with 1 of each type of persuasive appeal (logical, ethical, emotional).
FCA #2: Refute (or argue against) one counter argument.
FCA #3: Use 3 of the 4 rhetorical devices (repetition, restatement, parallelism, rhetorical questions).
Bonus: +5 points if you type your response
25 points total