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Turn in your IRA to the basket and then answer the following questions: 1) Why is it important to understand the ideals of your audience when trying to persuade? 2) What is the connection between audience ideals, purpose and rhetoric?. Entry Task 10.22.2014.
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Turn in your IRA to the basket and then answer the following questions:1) Why is it important to understand the ideals of your audience when trying to persuade?2) What is the connection between audience ideals, purpose and rhetoric? Entry Task 10.22.2014 Materials needed today: journal, writing utensil, highlighter
Do a close read as you listen to Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech. Your close read must include annotations about rhetoric, audience, voice, and tone.
Think, Pair, Share • What techniques did you notice? How did they show his purpose or audience’s ideals? • What were the ideals of his audience? How do you know? Evidence from text? Evidence from your knowledge of history? • Did they primarily support his ideas, or did he have to convince them? What textual evidence can you use to prove that? • Then write a discussion question for the class using the following format: • “How does MLK Jr’s use of _______ in the ____ paragraph when he said “____” relate to his audience’s ideals and his purpose?”