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Syllabus: Grade 10 ELA Unit 7
Theme: Making Your Case – Citing, Debating, and Summarizing
Big Idea
A compelling argument can influence an audience.
Essential Questions
(Incorporate Real World Connections)
How do words and ideas lead to conclusions?
Essential Standards:
Reading – Literary
RI-2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text,
including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective
summary of the text.
Writing-Argument
W-3d: Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid
picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
Speaking and Listening
L-1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when
writing or speaking.
Research
W-9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and
research.
Student Assignments
Assignment 1: Read Second Class Citizen . Complete a graphic organizer on Buchi’s struggles
and their effects (Use the cluster web organizer in student resources)
Assignment 2: Read “AIN’T I A WOMAN” (Globe Fearon Literature silver level) pp.78-79.
Answer Understand the Selection (1-10), Think About Persuasion (1-5) and Develop Your
Vocabulary (1-10). See Student Resource Section.
Assignment 3: Decide whether you, as a 19th century person, will agree or disagree with
Sojourner truth. Jot down ideas supporting your position. Include details of why you feel this
way. Use your notes to write 5 paragraphs in the first-person point of view. Remember you
have to be a person from the 19th century. (See Student Resources for additional handouts)
Assignment 4: Watch the YouTube video and complete assignments 1-3 found in the student
resources under “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”.
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech- performance”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHo-3LEcgQE
Assignment 5: Continue reading novel and using Cornel Notes. See Student Resource Section
for writing Cornel Notes.
Assessment: Oars/Inspect Test
Student Resources
Academic Vocabulary
Tier 2 Words
bonny
claret
doeskin
galleon
alliteration
rave
forked
gay
curse
austere
embalm
intricate
Tier 3 Words
textual
explicitly
refined
objective
figurative
opinion
analyze
cumulative
connotative
peruse
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Assignments
Assignment #1
In a short paragraph, analyze the speech “Give me Liberty or give me Death”.
Make sure you use your own words.
Assignment #2
Rhetorical Devices used in the Give me Liberty Speech
Rhetorical Devices are used in the "Give me Liberty or give me Death!" speech.
Rhetorical Devices are patterns of ideas and words that stir emotions, create
emphasis by repetition and are highly persuasive.
Repetition: Rhetorical Device using the same words.
Example: "The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come."
Restatement: uses the same idea but different words.
Example: "If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those
inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending..."
Parallelism: gives two or more parts of the sentences a similar form so as
to give the whole a definite pattern.
Example: "We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we
have prostrated ourselves before the throne."
Rhetorical Question: asking a question with an obvious answer.
Example: "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?"
Assignment: Find one additional example of each of these Rhetorical Devices in
the speech “Give me Liberty or give me Death” and underline or circle. Label R
for repetition, RS for restatement, P for parallelism, and RQ for rhetorical
question.
Assignment #3
Rhetorical Strategies used in the Give me Liberty Speech
Rhetorical Strategies help a writer organize evidence, connect facts into a
sequence, and provide clusters of information necessary for conveying a purpose
or an argument. Rhetorical Strategies are used in the "Give me Liberty or give me
Death!" speech. Patrick Henry persuades by pathos, ethos, metaphor, imagery,
and logos to express the themes of freedom, equality, and independence. A
combination of Rhetorical Devices and Strategies used in "Give me Liberty or give
me Death!" speech results in highly persuasive, motivational and emotional words
and ideas producing an extremely powerful speech.
Pathos: Pathos is a quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up
emotions of pity, sympathy and sorrow. Pathos can be expressed through words,
pictures or even with gestures of the body. Pathos is an important tool of
persuasion in arguments. Pathos is a method of convincing people with an
argument drawn out through an emotional response.
Example: “Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which
the God of nature hath placed in our power.”
Ethos: In rhetoric, ethos represents credibility or an ethical appeal which involves
persuasion by the character involved.
Example: “Guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty
toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.”
Metaphor: Metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or
hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each
other but have some characteristics common between them. In other words, a
resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single
or some common characteristics.
Example: “Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet.”
Imagery: Imagery means to use figurative language to represent objects, actions
and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.
Example: “...have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the
ministry and Parliament.”
Logos (logic): A literary device that can be defined as a statement, sentence or
argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing
reason or logic.
Example: “I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.”
Assignment: Find one additional example of each of these Rhetorical Strategies
in the speech “Give me Liberty or give me Death” and underline or circle. Label
PS for pathos, E for ethos, M for metaphor, I for imagery and L for logos.
Cornel notes