Monday & Tuesday, November 25 & 26 - Letter from Birmingham

Objective: By the end of class students will cite strong and thorough textual evidence in order to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences and conclusions based on the author's explicit assumptions and beliefs on a subject.

CC 1.2.9-10.B / L.N 2.1.1 / L.N.2.1.2

DO NOW - Write definitions below into notebooks:

CONNOTATION -  an idea, feeling or emotion that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning(similar to "loaded words")

DENOTATION - the literal, dictionary or primary meaning of a word without any emotion attached to it

Authors or speakers use connotations to create TONE. TONE is the speaker's attitude toward a subject.

Direct Instruction


Connotation handout.

Direct Instruction

The speeches we are going to analyze are PERSUASIVE  which means the speaker is trying to convince the listener of something.
It is AN ARGUMENT that has a CALL to ACTION.

The three appeals - LOGOS, PATHOS and ETHOS are are used for PERSUASION (not informational, not for entertainment). They are SPECIFICALLY used to persuade. 

Guided

Chief Joseph fought for equal rights in his speech to the White House in 1879, 11 years after the 14th Amendment. But as we read and discussed, equal rights were not afforded to the Native American Indians. 

The fight, however, did not stop there. Fast Forward 1960's.....

Civil Rights Montage

JFK Speech on Equal Rights..civil rights montage

Birmingham News Report

Schmoop video


Guided

Prepare the Rhetorical Appeals Graphic Organizer

Read together excerpt from Letter From Birmingham - pages 319-321 in textbook -Martin Luther King, Jr.  - April 16, 1963. As we read, identify:
1. Two logical appeals (QUOTES).
2. Two emotional appeals (QUOTES).
3. One ethical appeals (QUOTE).
4. List two "LOADED" words that have BIAS - words with a strong negative or positive connotations. Explain how these words influence the reader.

Analyze how Martin Luther King, Jr. uses emotional, logical and ethical appeals to influence his audience to afford equal rights to all Americans through his Letter from Birmingham Jail.–



Check for Understanding

Individual student checks during independent work.

Closure