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DO Now-12/12/17 Take out your copy of “Letters from Birmingham Jail” and Module 2, Unit 1 Lesson 6 Handouts. Make sure all of your responses are complete and include all parts for a formal response (i.e. quotation marks, paragraph numbers, etc….) Clear your desk of all extraneous materials!!
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Discussion Questions What does King identify as “paradoxical”?
What can you infer from the clergymen’s “anxiety over [King and his affiliates’] willingness to break laws”? In paragraph 13, how does King define unjust laws? Cite his three specific definitions. In the first two definitions, what is the impact of King’s specific word choices? In paragraphs 12 and 13, what are King’s central claims? How do the sentences “To use the words of Martin Buber relegating persons to the status of things,” refine and develop the sentence that precedes them: “It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority”?
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Exit Ticket Delineate King’s argument in paragraphs 12–15. Assess the validity of his reasoning.
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Homework Reread paragraphs 12–15 and use your Rhetorical Impact Tool to analyze King’s use of rhetoric in these paragraphs.
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