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February 6 What am I learning? How are visuals texts different from written text? How do authors express ideas in texts? What am I going to do? Read and analyze examples and texts collaboratively to answer analysis questions. How will I show I learned it? I will implement my reading, observation, and analysis skills and strategies to cite the evidence from text and answer questions. Vocabulary Practice Claim Decoding the visuals Group work HW: Grammar (DUE Friday) REMINDER: We are going to the comp. lab tomorrow.

Identifying the arguer’s point CLAIMS Identifying the arguer’s point

Claims A claim is the point an arguer is trying to make. The claim is the conclusion, proposition, or assertion an arguer wants another to accept. The claim answers the question, "So what is your point?” example: “You should send a birthday card to Mimi, because she sent you one on your birthday.” example: “I drove last time, so this time it’s your turn to drive.” example: “Because the groundhog saw his shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter.”

February 8 Vocabulary Practice Rhetorical Appeals What am I learning? What is the effect of rhetoric and argument? How do authors express ideas in texts? What am going to do? Learn and implement new vocabulary and concepts. Examine and evaluate texts for argumentative techniques and rhetoric. How will I show I learned it? I will implement my analysis skills to identify rhetorical appeals and argumentative techniques and devices in a text. February 8 Vocabulary Practice Rhetorical Appeals Read, discuss, analyze “Speech in Virginia Convention” TB p. 99 HW: Work grammar and vocab.

Rhetorical Appeals Logos: logical appeal Pathos: emotional appeal Aristotle named three rhetorical appeals Logos: logical appeal Pathos: emotional appeal Ethos: ethical appeal

Logos Logos appeals to logic and may include facts, statistics, or “quotes” This information is used as evidence within the text to support your argument and persuade the audience. Example: “Nine out of ten health professionals agree, an apple a day really does keep the doctor away.”

Ethos Ethos appeals to our sense of ethics, including social and moral codes, trust, and credibility. There are two kinds of ethos—artistic and inartistic. Artistic ethos is created and sustained through the delivery of the message. Inartistic ethos pre-exists and comes along with someone’s status or station.

Pathos Pathos appeals to the emotions, needs and wants of the listener. This strategy attempts to influence or manipulate the emotions and desires of the audience in order to persuade or convince the listener that their argument is true. Can you name any propaganda techniques that rely on emotional appeals?

February 9 Vocabulary Review Vocabulary Quiz Grammar Questions What am I learning? What is the effect of rhetoric and argument? How do authors express ideas in texts? What am going to do? Learn and implement new vocabulary and concepts. Examine and evaluate texts for argumentative techniques and rhetoric. How will I show I learned it? I will implement my analysis skills to identify rhetorical appeals and argumentative techniques and devices in a text. February 9 Vocabulary Review Vocabulary Quiz Grammar Questions Continue: Read, discuss, analyze “Speech in Virginia Convention” TB p. 99 HW: Finish the speech work if not done in class! Extra Credit and grammar are due tomorrow.

Persuasion: a form of discourse (speaking) that uses Reason (Logos) and Emotional Appeals (Pathos) to convince another person to act/think in a certain way. Ethos or ethics and credibility is also utilized. Rhetorical Devices: are structures within language that appeal to readers or listeners and communicate ideas Types of Devices: A rhetorical question is a question to which no answer is expected Antithesis or “Either/Or Fallacy” expresses contrasting ideas in parallel grammatical structures Repetition is the recurrence of words, phrases, or lines. Parallelism is a kind of repetition in which words or phrases in the same grammatical form connect ideas. Restatement is expressing the same idea using different words. Biblical allusions are references to events, figures, or phrases from the Bible. In this selection, they have the rhetorical appeal of shared beliefs.

SOAPSTone Speaker Occasion Audience Purpose Subject Tone When we read or write a persuasive piece, we usually keep in mind the following: Speaker Occasion Audience Purpose Subject Tone

SOAPSTone When reading Henry’s speech, one must consider the following key pieces: Speaker: Patrick Henry Occasion: the meeting of the VA Convention, before we declared independence Audience: delegates of the VA Convention Purpose: to encourage them to take up arms to fight the British Subject: Fight! Tone: urgent, pleading & inflammatory The important consideration is who he is addressing.

February 10 Vocabulary 5 PPT Grammar Check What am I learning? What is the effect of rhetoric and persuasion? How do authors express ideas in texts? What am going to do? Learn and implement new vocabulary and concepts. Examine and evaluate texts for persuasive techniques and rhetoric. How will I show I learned it? I will implement my analysis skills to identify rhetorical appeals and persuasive techniques and devices in a text. February 10 Vocabulary 5 PPT Grammar Check Read, discuss, analyze “The Declaration of Independence” TB p. 111 REMINDER: Extra Credit is due today. HW: Finish Patrick Henry work and turn it in on Monday. Finish narrative if you want a higher grade by Monday also.