Tuesday, March 10 - Persuasive Elements and Making connections

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze funeral / persuasive speech from Julius Caesar (Shakespeare 1599)  and evaluate the same persuasive devices used in JFK Jr. funeral speech  for MLK Jr. (1968) in order to make real life connections and improve reading interpretive skills.

DO NOW

In constructed response format (which means restate/ explain /  provide example or quote / conclude):

Analyze the components of Marc Antony's speech that convince the people that Caesar was not an ambitious man and explain why it is more persuasive than Brutus' speech.

In No Fear book - page 133 / In soft holt reader - page 348 . You may use the graphic organizer an/or a NEO to write you answer. 


Direct Instruction

Make real life connections. The same tactics that were used to be persuasive in JC, have been used throughout history. (Logical and emotional appeals, ethical appeal, use of repetition, irony and rhetorical questions).

Introduce Eulogy for MLK. Jr. by Robert F Kennedy - page 281 - soft holt reader. Read the boxed BACKGROUND information together. 
Antony used his funeral speech to get the people to rebel, JFK uses the speech to calm the crowd and unite. Same tactics!

Read pages 281-282 together and annotate.

Guided

View it here first

Independent

Using the graphic organizers provided, analyze Eulogy for MLK in soft holt reader (pages 281-283) and identify the persuasive devices used to convince the people to unite rather than rebel against the system. Then explain how they are effective.

Check for understanding

Check with individual groups or pairs during independent work.

Closure

Groups share examples identified in RFK speech.

Exit Pass

What do you think is the most persuasive element in RFK's eulogy that encourages the crowd to support him rather than rebel?