Tuesday, March 3 - Connotations / Rhetorical Devices in Persuasion

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze speeches and identify rhetorical devices in order to improve reading interpretive skills.

DO NOW
For periods 1/2 - Write down the differences between Persuasion and manipulation in notebooks


Connotations handout - read directions and complete 1-8 on the handout provided.

Direct Instruction

Rhetorical (persuasive) Devices - Ways to use language to effectively persuade.

1. Repetition of words and sounds
2. Parallelism - repeated grammatical structure
3. Rhetorical Questions - questions requiring no answer because the answer is obvious.

Guided 

Use soft holt reader to read 345 -347.

Answer sidebars and annotate for rhetorical devices. 

Independent

Then use the rhetorical device graphic organizer to record rhetorical devices and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of Brutus' speech. 

Check for understanding

Individual student checks during independent work

Closure

review