Key question: What function does rhetoric perform in a (democratic) society?
Starter (Pair share): How would you answer the key question right now? What is the function of rhetoric in a democratic society?
Get out your Reverse Outline!
In your groups, work to clarify the RHETORIC AS AN ART section.
1. Did everyone in your group understand the gist of the section?
2. Share your examples of each principle.
THE SAGA CONTINUES….
Check out these two tweets from Sunday:
Let’s Engage with Discourse! Rhetoric is a Response and Invites a Response
JOURNAL 9.12 Respond to this rhetoric in Digital Comp Book. (Approx. 2 well-developed paragraphs)
WATCH THESE CLIPS:
Your response should have two parts
1) Relate these clips to any of the ideas/principles from the Herrick article
2) Respond to the message itself as an "audience member." What is your ideological reaction to this clip? Relate it to your own thoughts about America and things that you have noticed or believe to be true. (Be rhetorical! That is to say: take an ideological perspective on these clips and try to be convincing.)