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

Tomi Lahren and Trevor Noah

How do we see the different ideologies (ideas about American life) in this rhetorical exchange?

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 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?

Lesson:  RHETORIC AS A TYPE OF DISCOURSE

"I Have a Dream" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• 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 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 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 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

Tyler Durden's Speech

1.  What is his message?

2.  Is it convincing?  Why?

3.  How does he appeal to his audience?

A Pep Talk from Kid President

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.

Definitions of "rhetoric":  http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricdefinitions.htm

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

Mini-lesson:  An 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 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.