Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #1 9-19-12

1. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #1 9-19-12 Directions: Use your notes from Monday to help you answer these questions. • Explain what rationalism is in your own words. • Why is the era of the Revolutionary War known as the “age of pamphlets? (Hint: Why is most literature from this era persuasive? ) • How are Ben Franklin’s aphorisms logical? Today’s Target: I can recognize persuasive rhetorical techniques in a text.

2. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #2 9-20-12 Directions: Label the following examples ethos, logos or pathos (All from yesterday’s 2Pac song). Explain your choice. Each one will only be used once. • “Say there ain't no hope for the youth and the truth is it ain't no hope for tha future” • “And since we all came from a woman/Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman” • “And suddenly tha ghetto didn't seem so tough/And though we had it rough, we always had enough” • List the three other persuasive techniques discussed in yesterday’s notes. Today’s Target: I can apply persuasive rhetorical techniques in various mediums.

3. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #3 9-21-12 Directions: Identify the persuasive technique being used below. • He was a real Romeo with the ladies. • “Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but here’s my number, so call me maybe?” • “We have warned them…We have reminded them of the circumstances…We have appealed to them…We have conjured them.” Today’s Target: I can apply persuasive rhetorical techniques in various mediums.

4. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #4 9-24-12 Directions: Read the lists below. Identify the persuasive technique that would best fit the items in the list. Use your notes on persuasive techniques to help you. • Facts, statistics, reasoned arguments, evidence • Similes or metaphors, emotionally charged diction, playing on fears, desires and insecurities • Using words like “I” or “We,” actually being present at the event discussed, having a reputation for a certain skill, respectability or likeability Today’s Target: I can recognize persuasive rhetorical techniques in a text.

5. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #5 9-25-12 Directions: Think about Patrick Henry’s “Speech in the Virginia Convention” that you read yesterday. Use the text to answer the following questions. • What two sides are being debated at the Virginia Convention? • Patrick Henry asserts that the time for negotiation with Great Britain has ____________. • What is the main idea of Patrick Henry’s speech? (Hint: What is he trying to persuade the convention to do?) Today’s Target: I can recognize persuasive rhetorical techniques in a text.

6. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #6 9-26-12 Directions: Below are quotes from Patrick Henry’s speech. Identify which persuasive technique each quote best fits. Explain why you think that. • “I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. And judging by the past. . .” (264). • “There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged!” (266) Today’s Target: I can recognize persuasive rhetorical techniques in a text.

7. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #79-27-12 Directions: Think about the context we discussed for The Declaration of Independence and refer to page 270 to help you answer the questions below. • Why do the colonists think that it is “too late to apologize”? • Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Today’s Target: I can recognize persuasive rhetorical techniques in a text.

8. What to review for your test this Friday: • Know how to apply ALL the persuasive techniques we discussed in class. You will be given a passage you have not seen and have to identify these techniques. • Review your notes over Rationalism • Be able to compare the Puritan times to the Revolutionary times. • Ben Franklin and aphorisms • Understand the content and be able to identify persuasive techniques in these works: • Patrick Henry’s “Speech in the Virginia Convention” • Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence