1. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #1 9-20-13 Directions: Read pages 256-258 in your literature book. 1-8. Write down eight important facts about this time period and number them as you write each one. Hint: Look for the main ideas or significant details of this informational essay. Today’s Target: I can describe the historical context of the 18 th century.

2. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #1 9-20-13 Directions: Read pages 256-258 in your literature book. 1-8. Write down eight important facts about this time period and number them as you write each one. Hint: Look for the main ideas or significant details of this informational essay. Today’s Target: I can describe the historical context of the 18 th century.

3. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #3 9-25-13 1. What do you think it means for a speaker or writer to posses credibility or ethics? 2. What do you think it means when a speaker or writer uses logical appeals in their text? 3. What do you think it means when a speaker or writer uses emotional appeals in their text? Today’s Target: I can recognize persuasive rhetorical techniques in a text.

4. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #4 9-26-13 Directions: Use yesterday’s song analysis and your Persuasive Rhetoric notes to help you answer the following questions. 1. In what ways did Jack Johnson’s song “Gone” possess ethos? Explain. 2. Give one example of a logical argument from yesterday’s song. Why is this a logical lyric? 3. In what ways does his song appeal to the emotions (pathos)? Explain. Today’s Target: I can recognize and analyze persuasive rhetorical techniques in a text.

5. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #5 9-27-13 Directions: Label the following examples ethos, logos or pathos (All from yesterday’s 2Pac song). Explain your choice. Each one will only be used once. 1. “Say there ain't no hope for the youth and the truth is it ain't no hope for tha future” 2. “And since we all came from a woman/Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman” 3. “And suddenly tha ghetto didn't seem so tough/ And though we had it rough, we always had enough” Today’s Target: I can recognize and analyze persuasive rhetorical techniques in various mediums.

6. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #6 9-30-13 Directions: Get out your Persuasive Rhetoric notes. Identify the persuasive technique being used below. 1. He was a real Romeo with the ladies. 2. “Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but here’s my number, so call me maybe?” 3. “We have warned them…We have reminded them of the circumstances…We have appealed to them…We have conjured them.” ****When you finish your bellringer read page 269. Today’s Target: I can recognize and analyze persuasive rhetorical techniques in a text.

7. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #7 10-1-13 Directions: Think about Patrick Henry’s “Speech in the Virginia Convention” that you read yesterday. Use the text to answer the following questions. 1. What two sides are being debated at the Virginia Convention? 2. Patrick Henry asserts that the time for negotiation with Great Britain has ____________. 3. What is the main idea of Patrick Henry’s speech? (Hint: What is he trying to persuade the convention to do?) Today’s Target: I can recognize persuasive rhetorical techniques in a text.

8. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #8 10-2-13 Directions: Below are quotes from Patrick Henry’s speech. Identify which persuasive technique each quote best fits. Explain why you think that. 1. “I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. And judging by the past...” (264). 2. “There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged!” (266) Today’s Target: I can recognize persuasive rhetorical techniques in a text.

9. Revolutionary Literature Bellringer #9 10-3-13 Directions: Read the lists below. Identify the persuasive technique that would best fit the items in the list. Use your notes on persuasive techniques to help you. 1. Facts, statistics, reasoned arguments, evidence 2. Similes or metaphors, emotionally charged diction, playing on fears, desires and insecurities 3. Using words like “I” or “We,” actually being present at the event discussed, having a reputation for a certain skill, respectability or likeability Today’s Target: I can recognize persuasive rhetorical techniques in a text.

10. What to review for your test this Friday: Know how to apply ALL the persuasive techniques we discussed in class. You will be given a passage you have not seen and have to identify these techniques. Review your notes over Rationalism Be able to compare the Puritan times to the Revolutionary times. Ben Franklin and aphorisms Understand the content and be able to identify persuasive techniques in these works:  Paul Revere’s Engraving “The Boston Massacre”  Patrick Henry’s “Speech in the Virginia Convention”  Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence