Wednesday, January 20th, 2016
AP English Language and Composition
AGENDA:
1. Choose one passage from “Letter from Birmingham
Jail” that moves you or is particularly powerful and
write an essay on why that passage is memorable. Don’t
forget to include any and all rhetorical devices that
MLK uses in that passage and why that rhetorical
device(s) adds to the persuasiveness of King’s appeal to
the clergy. Needs to be at least one page in length…due
Wednesday, 1/20.
2. Complete analysis of “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by
Martin Luther King (pp.608-622). In your groups,
analyze letter for structure and rhetorical devices, such
as parallelism, allusion, anaphoras, etc. and present
findings to class.
3. Introduce documentaries as visual rhetoric.
Complete analysis of 4 Little Girls by Spike Lee
for evidence of persuasiveness(handout).
HOMEWORK/UPCOMING DUE DATES:
 Next vocabulary list is due this Friday, 1/22.