Monday, September 30, 2019

Monday, September 30th

Starter 9.30:  
America loves Satire!!! Watch this video and respond:  What liberal and conservative perspectives are being spoofed in this video?  Give at least one example of each and explain the perspective that is being satirized.

Today’s Question:
What are the American values and principles of democracy that transcend party?  What do we agree on?



GROUP BRAINSTORM:  What are the American values and principles of democracy that transcend party?  What might most Americans agree on despite their political affiliation?

WORK TIME TO DO LIST:
1. HONORS MEETING: Essay assignment
2. Work on Rhetorical Appeals handout: Bryan Stevenson TED talk questions and scenario brainstorms
******If you were gone last week Thursday/Friday, please review my DP to catch up on new content.  
3. Missing assignments? Process Reflection? Self-assessment? Film analysis? Finish and turn in!
4. READ news on the impending impeachment of the president
5. OPTIONAL: Project Implicit

Friday, September 27, 2019

Friday, September 27th

Starter 9.27:
Are you convinced by this rhetoric? What makes it effective? Who might not find it effective? Why?

 

Goal for the Day:
Understand Aristotelian Appeals (logos, pathos, and ethos) and identify how they are used in rhetorical discourse.


Aristotelian Appeals: Notes/Examples



Analyze this discourse with attention to the Aristotelian appeals!

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Thursday, September 26th

Review the bigger picture: PROJECT DESCRIPTION
What questions do we have at this point?



AN IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE....
(in a circle?)
JOURNAL 9.26 Officer Op-Ed Questions:
1.What is his argument? What is the officer trying to convince us of?
2. Is this article credible?  How does it establish credibility?
3. Which values does the author appeal to?  Does he make any emotional appeals?
4. How might someone push back on the argument? What perspectives might be missing?
5. What makes this argument convincing? 






Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Wednesday, September 25th

Finish last fifteen minutes of the film.


Circle up for discussion.
w/ hot seat:)


When you are not in the inner circle, you may work on finishing your viewing guide, but you should also be listening intently and processing your thoughts about the topic.


TURN IN FILM ANALYSIS!
And if you didn't turn in the Process Reflection and Self-Assessment from Monday.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Tuesday, September 24th

Dear students: I hope you all have an excellent day.  Please view this film as a critical audience for rhetorical discourse. Think about how documentary film exemplifies the principles of "Rhetoric as an Art" that James Herrick lays out. Please complete the film analysis questions for class tomorrow.


SCREENING: 13th
(If you are reading this because you are absent, this film is on Netflix!)



13th Film Analysis Questions: Finish as homework!

Monday, September 23, 2019

Monday, September 23rd

Self-Assessment: Digital Comp Book and Daily Class Participation and Intellectual Presence 


Process Reflection (type or ask for a hard copy)
1. Explain what you have learned so far about what makes rhetoric effective (or not).
2. Explain what you have learned so far about the function of rhetoric in our society.

3. How would you answer the essential question right now:  "What is the relationship between 

history and ideology?

4.  What are some new understandings that you have about America’s complicated past?
5.  What question(s) do you have about our course content?



FEEDBACK CIRCLE:
What is going well?
What could be better? 
What could I do?  
What could you guys do?
Junior year temperature check?
Suggestions, concerns, questions?


PLEASE TURN IN MISSING ASSIGNMENTS!
Declaration of Independence: Is it done in your folder?



Thursday, September 19, 2019

Thursday, September 19th

Starter/Journal 9.19:  Answer one of the following questions in your comp book:
  • What were your main take-aways from yesterday’s podcast?  Pieces of new learning?
OR
  • How is the 1619 project attempting to reshape the collective knowledge of our society?



DISCUSS:
  • Why was Nikole Hannah-Jones’ dad proud to fly the flag? How did she feel about it and why?
  • Why do you think there has been conservative backlash against the project?
  • What is her main claim?
  • What connections do you see to the National Anthem protests and the dialogue between Tomi and Trevor?


IDEOLOGY CHECK...

Clips from Chelsea does Racism on Netflix (26ish-39ish)  




WORK TIME


FINISH YOUR LISTENING GUIDE FROM YESTERDAY!  Please go back and re-read the transcript or re-listen to the podcast if it helps.


ADD TO JOURNAL 9.19:

  1. ADD ON to what you started to write in the starter at the beginning of class:  What are your main takeaways so far from looking at the 1619 project? AND/OR How is the project attempting to reshape knowledge in our society
  2. If slavery is long since over, why does it matter how we teach it?  In your answer, try to use the phrase “ideology” in context.

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Wednesday, September 18th

Starter: Four Corners
Kneeling during the national anthem is an appropriate way for NFL players to protest what they see as injustices in our society.


What is the function of rhetoric in society?
Why is it important to democracy?


(TOMI AND TREVOR:  How is their conversation important to democracy?)







Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Tuesday, September 17

Starter 9.17 MLK Jr. /MALCOLM X

Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary

  • How do both MLK’s and Malcolm X's rhetoric impact you personally as an "audience member," an American (or a non-American), a student of rhetoric? 
  • Reflect on the ideological progress we have or haven’t made as Americans since the exigency of the Civil Rights Movement.

DISCUSS

  • How is Malcolm X’s message both similar and different from MLK’s?
  • What exigency do they have in common?
  • How are their appeals different?  What might this have to do with audience?
  • Which rhetorical strategy do you think has been more effective at bringing about change?  Why?


FOUR CORNERS:
Kneeling during the national anthem is an appropriate way for NFL players to protest what they see as injustices in our society.



If time: Rhetoric is a Response and Invites a Response
How do we see the different ideologies (ideas about American life) in this rhetorical exchange?

Monday, September 16, 2019

Monday, September 16th

Starter 9.16:  Storycorps episode from August 18, 2017: Francine Anderson
Would you classify this story as “rhetorical discourse”?  Why or why not?
If you don’t think it qualifies as rhetoric, explain what sets it apart using Herrick’s stated characteristics of rhetorical discourse (see your reverse outline or yesterday’s ppt for reference).
If you do think it qualifies, explain how Francine Anderson (and the Storycorps format in general) use the resources of language (the 4A’s: argument, appeals, arrangement, aesthetics) to modify/influence the perspective of the audience.


WORK TIME on group analysis of Dr. King’s speech
If your group finishes early, use the extra time to keep reading Herrick and completing your reverse outline notes.


Discuss Rhetorical Analysis of Dr. King’s speech



Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
  • How is Malcolm X’s message both similar and different from MLK’s?
  • What exigency do they have in common?
  • How are their appeals different?  What might this have to do with audience?
  • Which rhetorical strategy do you think has been more effective at bringing about change?  Why?



IF WORK TIME REMAINS:
Finish Herrick and Reverse Outline for Tomorrow

Be sure to come up with original examples in the section “Rhetoric as an Art.” (There is space for this in the outline.)

Friday, September 13, 2019

Friday, September 13th

Starter 9.13:  In what ways is your chemistry project rhetorical?  
AND/OR
In what ways is your chemistry project ideological?


REVIEW Website analysis assignment from Wednesday


Key question:  What are the features of rhetoric that set it apart from other types of discourse?





  • Listen intently and annotate for the characteristics of rhetorical discourse that Herrick outlines in his article. 



FIRST:  What are the components of the Rhetorical Situation?
1.  What is the message?
2.  Who is MLK Jr.?
3.  Who is the audience?
4.  What is the purpose?
5.  What is the historical context?


Group Work:  Rhetorical Analysis of “I Have a Dream”



HOMEWORK: Finish Herrick "Overview of Rhetoric" for next Tuesday. Continue working on reverse outline.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Wednesday, September 11th

20 minutes to finish Rhetoric of Plastics assignment!
By decree of the law, today is Patriot Day.
Watch this video. How does this video make you feel?  
(Patriotism=Pathos. Take it in, kids!)

Remembering 9-11




Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Tuesday, September 10th

Review:  What is rhetoric?
Starter: Discuss/Brainstorm the following questions with your table groups.
  • How do we come into contact with rhetoric in our daily lives?
  • When are we practicing rhetoric in our daily lives?
  • What professions mandate great rhetorical skills?
  • Is literature rhetoric?

The Rhetorical Situation



GROUP WORK: Analyze the rhetorical situation of two websites
Keep working on Herrick and group outline

Friday, September 6, 2019

Friday, September 6th

Starter 9.6:  Howard Zinn wrote “It was clear to the educated, upper-class colonists that something needed to be done to persuade the lower class to join the revolutionary cause.”  If Zinn is correct in his claim, why do you think the Founders were successful in this goal of persuasion? 

INTRO TO RHETORIC!

Examples of Persuasion:  Two pep talks
1.  What is his message?
2.  Is it convincing?  Why?
3.  How does he appeal to his audience?
1.  What is his message?
2.  Is it convincing?  Why?
3.  How does he appeal to his audience?

What is rhetoric?  
Look up definitions (solo or partners) and then paraphrase in your own words.


Begin reading "An Overview of Rhetoric" by James Herrick.  Read through (including) page 7, the section called "Defining Rhetoric."  


Mini-lessonAn Overview of Rhetoric

WORK TIME/HOMEWORK for Tuesday
1. Read Herrick article, an "An Overview of Rhetoric" through p 17, you may STOP at the header RHETORIC AS AN ART. 
2. Reverse Outline  Due next Friday (Quiz on this content!)

Thursday, September 5, 2019

Thursday, September 5th

Starter 9.5: A Significant Omission…..
Read the omitted passage from the Declaration of Independence and answer the following questions:
To what is Jefferson referring?
Why do you think Congress removed this from the adopted  draft?

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation hither … And he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he had deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.


Discuss Declaration Packet. (TURN IT IN!)
What are the ideologies upon which our country is founded?
What bias did you see in each of the historian excerpts?

The American Revolution:  Crash Course US History
John Green says, “If you are going to base your society on philosophy, you should try to found it on ideals that are as inclusive and humanistic as possible--because the people executing those ideals with never be ideal.”  

Speaking of founding philosophy, here is a dose of rhetoric from the Constitution:
  • We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.



REVIEW:  What are the ideas upon which our nation is based?

Four corners:  
  • America is living up to the ideals set forth in our founding documents.
  • America’s historical hypocrisy undermines the philosophical basis for our democracy.


Journal 9.5: 

Free-write on your main take-aways from the discussion we have been having about America.  Try to sum up the perspective you are holding that made you align yourself to the corners you chose.

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Wednesday, September 4th

StarterAdd some thoughts to Journal 9.3 from yesterday.  

Share Bret Stephens--Patriotic or Cynical?  What is his point?  

Brainstorm 
1. What do you remember about the American Revolution?  What have you learned about it in your education?
2. What are some of the ideals upon which the Revolution was based?
3. Why was the Declaration of Independence written?  


The Declaration of Independence
How does the rhetoric of the Declaration impact you?  

  • Declaration Preamble
  • Why did the Founding Fathers write the Declaration?


HONORS: Let’s Meet!