Friday - Persuasive Techniques

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze persuasive techniques in order to improve reading comprehension.

DO NOW

Rhetorical devices

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.

Direct Instruction

3 persuasive appeals - take notes. When trying to persuade, all of these appeals are necessary and the devices from the "DO NOW" can be used with any of them.

Guided

View Brutus' speech before reading together in soft holt reader.

Start Brutus' speech - page - soft holt reader.

Closure

Review appeals - ensure in notebooks

Exit Pass

Do you think Brutus is sincere when he says he wants the best for Rome? Why or why not?