The Declaration of Independence

2. The Declaration of Independence

3. Rhetorical Devices Worksheet On your own, quickly fill out the worksheet provided using page 227 as a guide. Keep this sheet in your notes. You will need to refer back to it several times as we read the next few pieces.

4. Bell Work Write your own definition of the word Rebellion. What is the connotation of the word? Is it negative or positive? List some examples of how rebellion can be (or has been) a positive thing.

5. Discuss Describe a time in which you stood up for something you believed in, even when others wouldn’t.

6. AP Standard • Analyze and interpret samples of good writing, identifying and explaining an author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques

7. Unit Goal/Essay Question Using informational text from the unit, make a convincing argument for which text makes the most effective use of rhetoric.

8. The Classical Argument • Exordium – draws in reader • Narration – provides background • Partition – defines parameter of the argument (make claim) • Confirmation – offers support (evidence/reasons) • Refutation – responds to opposing positions • Peroration – concludes, compelling people to think or act

9. Classical Argument Example The WGA and AMTP are at odds over digital rights royalties. The WGA should be paid for new media broadcasts. 1988 was the last renegotiation for the WGA; the DVD market was in its infancy and digital rights were unheard of. WGA members make 2 cents per DVD sold. They make 0 cents from digital rebroadcasts. The studios will lose money, but they make billions and none will fold by a 2 cent increase in writer’s pay. Writers should be paid for digital media rights and paid more for DVD sales.

10. On a sheet of paper, make two charts like this:

11. As you view two videos, fill in your charts with the claim, support, and counterargument as it is presented. Mystery Men http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFC2o44koIA The Lorax http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUvHO33iaxg

12. Classical Argument chart • Exordium – • Narration – • Partition – • Confirmation – • Refutation – • Peroration –

13. Independent Practice Get into Baseball groups A a group, read “The Declaration of Independence” Create another chart and write down the all the parts of a classical argument from Thomas Jefferson’s declaration.

14. Rhetoric • Persuasive appeals: ethos-the standing of the writer or speaker • Pathos;appeals to emotion • Logos-appeals to reason-facts, logical statements • Language analysis: diction (word choice)-strong, vicious verbs, why present tense, negative diction • Syntax(sentence structure like parallelism and repetition etc • Images (allusion, imagery, simile, metaphor, personification etc)

15. Write an argumentative essay that includes all of the parts of a classical argument and at lease one of each of the following elements: Persuasive appeals: ethos-the standing of the writer or speaker Pathos;appeals to emotion Logos-appeals to reason-facts, logical statements Language analysis: diction (word choice)-strong, vicious verbs, why present tense, negative diction Syntax(sentence structure like parallelism and repetition etc Images (allusion, imagery, simile, metaphor, personification etc)