Notes 11-19-01
Lee Kruger
English 110
Speech from King Henry V. Identify emotional appeal, rational, persuasive strategies.
Use of video tape of the speech. Students also have a hard copy of the speech. Counter
arguments. He talks about how important is for Henry’s men to feel part of things,
included. A negative example of persuasion is provided to students. They are to look for
the strategies commonly used in persuasion. Identify why this is a bad example for
persuasion. Assignment for Wednesday – find elements of persuasion in the example.
Also look a the sheet of common writing problems – parallel structures.
Sample paragraphs, sentences. Lee reads them aloud and comments on them. Students
don’t have much of a chance to respond, answer, or comment. Do the activity in small
groups right now – not Wednesday. See if you can come up with one sentence that
resembles the example on the sheet.