Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Learning Target: I can articulate King's arguments and prominent rhetorical elements and strategies he employs to make them.

Homework: 

  • Tomorrow we will have a quiz on the content and rhetoric of LFBJ.
  • Also, please bring Behind The Beautiful Forevers



  • Thursday is the in-class AP rhetorical analysis essay for Letter from Birmingham Jail (you may use your annotated copy of Letter from Birmingham Jail).  We will be in DC-east.


Activity 1: 10 minutes to meet and make sure you can properly frame the debate between the clergymen and King (their particular objection to his approach and his counterargument). 

Activity 2: Presentations (5 mins each)


1) In a nutshell, what is King's response/counterargument? Condense it into a sentence or two.

2) For each paragraph, which rhetorical strategies, appeals, and devices are most significant in King's argument?

6)Paragraphs 31-33; 
5) Paragraphs 34-36; 
4)Paragraphs 37-39; 
3)Paragraphs 40-41; 
2)paragraphs 42-43; 
1) Paragraphs 44-47;



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