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American Lit

American Lit. Warm-Up/Wrap-Up: With your group please complete the rhetorical analysis on Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. You have 30 minutes and I will collect. IT SHOULD BE A COMPLETE ESSAY. Agenda Finish group rhetorical analyses Individual rhetorical analysis Part I Homework

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American Lit

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  1. American Lit • Warm-Up/Wrap-Up: With your group please complete the rhetorical analysis on Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. You have 30 minutes and I will collect. IT SHOULD BE A COMPLETE ESSAY. • Agenda • Finish group rhetorical analyses • Individual rhetorical analysis Part I • Homework • Read/Annotate Speeches for RA • Read Zeitoun to page 284, BOOK FINISHED MONDAY (TEST MONDAY) • AoW on Texas school IDs due Friday

  2. Practice makes perfect! • Two speeches: • Address to the U.N. Earth Summit, 1992, Severn Cullis-Suzuki • Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, Speech to Virginia Convention, 1775, Patrick Henry • Assignment • Choose one • Read and Analyze it for RHETORICAL ANALYSIS: logos, ethos, pathos, repetition, allusion, hyperbole, anaphora, apostrophe, alliteration, assonance, dramatic irony, euphemism, idiom, imagery, metaphor, personification, simile • Write a full rhetorical analysis, due at end of period Friday

  3. Address to U.N. Environmental SummitRio de Janeiro, 1992Severn Cullis-Suzuki • Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia • At age 9, she founded the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), a group of children dedicated to learning and teaching other youngsters about environmental issues. • In 1992, at age 12, Cullis-Suzuki raised money with members of ECO to attend the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro • Presented environmental issues from a youth perspective at the summit, where she was applauded for a speech to the delegates. • Since become known as "The Girl Who Silenced the World for 5 Minutes" • 1993, she was honored in the United Nations Environment Programmer's Global 500 Roll of Honor • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0

  4. Give Me Liberty or Give Me DeathVirginia Convention, 1775Patrick Henry • Lawyer, Politician, militia Colonel • At third Virginia Convention to discuss relations with Britain, whether or not to mobilize forces against them, gave this famous speech from a pew in his church • King George had declared states to be in a state of “open rebellion” and took all gunpowder • Patrick Henry forced the “Gunpowder Affair,” got the gunpowder back, became “Public Enemy No. 1” in eyes of British, stood for patriotism ever after • Best Line: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! — I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!“ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvJrSdr34co

  5. Rhetorical Analysis • Choose one of the two speeches • Read through and highlight different rhetorical devices you find • USE YOUR NOTES! • Outline your essay • USE YOUR NOTES/THE HANDOUTS! • Write the essay – full five paragraphs! • USE YOUR OUTLINE! • Consider yourself ready for the Zeitoun final paper! • Due end of period Friday!

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