1. Bell Ringer 5/22  Please get out your Patrick Henry Activity and your textbook so that we can go over section 1 for participation points.  1, 3

2. Bell Ringer 5/22  Please get out your Patrick Henry activity and your text book (pg. 187) so that we can begin reading “The Speech in the Virginia Convention.”  2

3. Bell Ringer 5/22  Please get out a piece of notebook paper and your Patrick Henry Notes & Activity (you will need the vocabulary definitions).  What are the three types of persuasive appeal? How does each type work?  4

4. Bell Ringer 5/22  Please get out your Patrick Henry Notes & Activity and sit with your partners from yesterday.  You have 10 minutes to finish section 1.  “The Speech in the Virginia Convention” is on pg. 187 in your textbook.  7

5. Bell Ringer 5/22  Please get out your Declaration of Independence Activity so that we can go over section 1 for participation points.  9

6. English III  EQ: How did Jefferson and Paine use structure and tone to enhance their arguments and persuade their particular audiences?  Agenda  Bell Ringer/Discussion  Agenda/EQ  Reading The Declaration of Independence  Notes & Activity  Crash Course #2  Reading “The Crisis, Number 1”  Comparing/Contrasting Persuasive Writing  MLK Activity

7. Comp/Cont Persuasive Writing  Create a 3 column graphic organizer.  Label the columns The Declaration, Similarities, and The Crisis  Analyze these topics:  Audience, Purpose, Tone, Structure, Evidence  List the similarities in the center column and the differences under the specific piece of writing to which it belongs.

8. Reading “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”  Identify and explain the following on a sheet of composition paper:  King’s Audience  King’s Purpose/Claim  King’s Premise  King’s Evidence  King’s Tone  Label a bullet point for each item and write in complete sentences.

9. 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  Persuasive Speech Vocab Notes  Commercial Example – Free Credit Report  Reading Patrick Henry’s Bio (pg. 184)  Reading Henry’s “Speech in the VA Convention”  Analysis Activity  Reading Benjamin Franklin’s Bio (pg. 184)  Crash Course: The Constitution  Reading Franklin’s “Speech in the Convention”  Analysis Activity

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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.

13. 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. 1. Who is the target audience? 2. What rhetorical devices are used? How do they make the commercial more effective? 3. What persuasive appeals are used? How are these appeals targeted at a particular audience?  Write in full sentences and be specific.