American Literature
Statistics
Emotional Appeal
Analogy
Opening
Rhetorical Questions
Repetition
Bandwagon
Match rhetorical devices
The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir,
let it come!
At the beginning of a speech about fire safety, the
speaker tells a short cautionary tale about a serious
injury that occurred as a result of not following
protocol.
Statistics
Emotional Appeal
Analogy
Opening
Rhetorical Questions
Repetition
Bandwagon
Match rhetorical devices
Power lines cause cancer. I met a little boy with
cancer who lived just 20 miles from a power line who
looked into my eyes and said, in his weak voice,
“Please do whatever you can so that other kids won’t
have to go through what I am going through
“But when shall we be stronger? Will it be next week,
or the next year?”
Just as a caterpillar comes out of its cocoon, so we
must come out of our comfort zone.
Unit 1
How are writers influenced by the
social, political, and philosophical
ideas of their time?
What are the effects of persuasive
techniques used in writing?
Learning Targets
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough
textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says
explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text,
including determining where the text leaves matters
uncertain.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.2 Determine two or more
central ideas of a text and analyze their development over
the course of the text, including how they interact and
build on one another to provide a complex analysis;
provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.3 Analyze a complex set of
ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific
individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the
course of the text.
Learning Targets
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.4 Determine the meaning of
words and phrases as they are used in a text, including
figurative, connotative, and technical meanings;
analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of
a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how
Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.5 Analyze and evaluate the
effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or
her exposition or argument, including whether the
structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.6 Determine an author’s
point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric
is particularly effective, analyzing how style and
content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or
beauty of the text.
Take out your chart from earlier this
week and continue…
Text
Patrick Henry’s
Speech in the
Virginia
Convention
The Patriot
Thomas
Jefferson’s
Declaration
of
Independence
Pg. &
Para.
Quote
Rhetorical
Device
Thomas
Jefferson and
Thomas Paine
Bio page 111
Declaration of
Independence page 112
American Crisis
Argumentative Essay
Analyze the rhetorical devices used and the claims
made by Patrick Henry in his Speech at the Virginia
Convention, Mel Gibson in The Patriot, and those
within Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of
Independence. Using specific references to the
texts and documenting their supports, you will
choose two texts and discuss which would have
had a greater effect on colonists’ perspective of
the burgeoning country, had all the people been
exposed to both writings.
Performance Tasks
Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence
Recall: What are some reasons Jefferson gives for
the colonists demanding independence?
Evaluate: How would Jefferson’s use of language
and this particular structure affect the king?
Synthesize/Evaluate: (Performance Task): Think
about an institution or place you are pressured to
attend or may be even forced to go. It may be
home, church, school etc. Consider your audience
and using Jefferson’s inalienable rights of man and
his structure, write your own Declaration of
Independence from that particular institution.