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MAKE-UP Test TUESDAY

MAKE-UP Test TUESDAY. For all those who missed it on FRIDAY. The Crisis: No. 1 . Thomas Paine. The Crisis: Speed Dating. List several emotional appeals Paine makes in “The Crisis.” What reasons does Paine give for seceding from Britain?

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MAKE-UP Test TUESDAY

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  1. MAKE-UP Test TUESDAY For all those who missed it on FRIDAY

  2. The Crisis: No. 1 Thomas Paine

  3. The Crisis: Speed Dating • List several emotional appeals Paine makes in “The Crisis.” • What reasons does Paine give for seceding from Britain? • What strategies does Paine use in the last paragraph to solidify his point?

  4. The Crisis • “summer soldier” and “sunshine patriot” are referring to people that are patriotic for only a season. It is meant to arouse anger. • “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; ‘tis dearness only that gives everything its value.” • The Crisis compares the America’s servitude in Britain to slavery. “To bind us in all cases whatsoever, and if being bound in that manner is not slavery, then there not such a thing as slavery on earth.” • Rhetorical statements such as this are useful as persuasive tactics. • Paine believes that God will not abandon any country who has earnestly sought peace

  5. The Crisis • Paine claims that King has as much right to call upon Heaven for help as a murderer • Tories- colonist who remain loyal to Britain • Paine says we should each fight for the future of our children “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may live in peace.” • Comments that America may be one of the happiest places on earth since it is removed from the “wrangling world.” • The final paragraph is a call to action • It challenges every state to act • It calls men from all walks of life • It claims all that those who do not act now will be thought of as cowards throughout the ages.

  6. “He whose heart is firm , and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his conduct even to death.” • Paine claims that nothing could have convinced him to support an offensive war, but he does not feel he has to stand by as he is robbed, enslaved, and threatened. • Finishes with more rhetorical questions.

  7. Rhetorical Strategies • Paine is a master of the usage of rhetorical strategies to make a point. • Rhetorical Questions • Emotional/Spiritual Appeals • Asked and Answered • Mixed Sentence Length

  8. The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln

  9. Abraham Lincoln • Little known facts • Loved the works of Edgar Allan Poe • Enjoyed playing pranks • Rarely attended school, largely self-educated • Suffered from bouts of depression • Ridiculed by country, cabinet, and generals

  10. Address • Used to dedicate the military cemetery at Gettysburg, 5 months after the battle in which 51,000 troops died. • November 19, 1863 • Lincoln uses an opposite strategy of Paine- humility • He notes that the people have come to consecrate, yet they are efforts are poor compared to those that spilled their blood there, who gave their “last full measure of devotion.” • He claims it is for us to be dedicated to the goal of their fight “a new birth of freedom.” • Ends with a single long sentence to keep the idea alive and amplify it with each new phrase. • Uses repetition to emphasize the words dedication and consecration and parallel structure to compare the actions of the living to those of the dead.

  11. Crossover Essay • Both Paine and Lincoln speak about the necessity of war. What similarities exist between their ideals of why people should fight? Use quotes from both stories to compare the stories.

  12. Both Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Paine stress the idea of fighting for the freedoms promised by our great country. Thomas Paine, enraged at Britain’s declaration to bind the colonies “in all cases whatsoever,” calls upon “every State” to “lay their shoulders to the wheel” in pursuit of “so celestial article as FREEDOM.” Paine emphasizes how difficult the journey will be, but counters with “the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Lincoln’s words echo the constant struggle for freedom voiced by Paine. Lincoln’s wonders whether any nation “conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” can survive. His dedication honors the sacrifice of the “honored dead” and dedicates himself and the country to the cause so many died for, that the “nation will have a new birth of freedom.” Each speaker recognizes the “great task” and the loss of life that accompanies such a goal, but stresses the idea we should not let our soldiers “die in vain” for a cause as noble as liberty.

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