Bell Ringer 5/23
 Please get out your Patrick Henry Activity so that we
can finish completing it for Tuesday.
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Bell Ringer 5/23
 Please get out your activity for the Crisis so that we
can start going over it.
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English III
 EQ: How did Jefferson and Paine use structure and tone to
enhance their arguments and persuade their particular
audiences?
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Bell Ringer/Discussion
Agenda/EQ
Reading The Declaration of Independence
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Notes & Activity
Crash Course #2
Reading “The Crisis, Number 1”
Comparing/Contrasting Persuasive Writing
MLK Activity
English III
 EQ: How do Henry and Franklin use persuasive appeals and
rhetorical devices to persuade effectively while anticipating the
audience’s knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases?
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Bell Ringer/Discussion
Agenda/EQ
Persuasive Speech Vocab Notes
Commercial Example – Free Credit Report
Reading Patrick Henry’s Bio (pg. 184)
Reading Henry’s “Speech in the VA Convention”
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Reading Benjamin Franklin’s Bio (pg. 184)
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Analysis Activity
Crash Course: The Constitution
Reading Franklin’s “Speech in the Convention”
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Analysis Activity
Persuasive Speech Vocab
 Persuasive Appeals
 Emotional Appeal (Pathos) – an appeal to emotion
 Logical Appeal (Logos) – an appeal to logic or reason
 Ethical Appeal (Ethos) – an appeal to credibility or character,
sometimes based on expertise
Persuasive Speech Vocab
 Rhetorical Devices
 Restatement: repeating an idea in a variety of ways
 Repetition: restating an idea using the same words
 Parallelism: repeating grammatical structures (often appears
in a list)
 Rhetorical question: asking a question whose answer is selfevident
Persuasive Speech Vocab
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Bias = prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group
compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
Analyzing Commercial Example
 Get into a group of 3.
 You need 1 piece of composition paper for your group.
 Watch the Free Credit Report Commercial and
answer the question.
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Who is the target audience?
What rhetorical devices are used? How do they make
the commercial more effective?
What persuasive appeals are used? How are these
appeals targeted at a particular audience?
 Write in full sentences and be specific.