Monday, October 26 - RFK - Persuasive funeral speech

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze funeral eulogy by RFK in order to make connections in persuasive writing/ speaking and improve reading comprehension.

DO NOW

Write into notebooks:

ANECDOTE - short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person often interjected into a persuasive speech to make a point.

Check Walls to ensure you have all info in notebooks - notebook check this week.

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, parallelism, 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. 

CRQ
Analyze RKF's Eulogy speech for MLK Jr. for persuasive appeals and devices used and explain how they are effective in convincing the crowd to unite rather than rebel against the system.

Check for understanding

Check with individual groups or pairs during independent work.

Closure

Review Examples of devices and appeals..

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?