Also, please bring Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Essay on Thursday
Learning Target: I can articulate King's arguments and prominent rhetorical elements and strategies he employs to make them.
Today, we will work on and then hear presentations on 30-47.
Reminder and note:
The in-class AP rhetorical analysis essay for Letter from Birmingham Jail will be on Thursday (you may use your annotated copy of Letter from Birmingham Jail).
Activity 3 (15 mins): Assign paragraphs according to groupings below. Please prepare presentations which address the following for each paragraph:
1) In this paragraph(s), which argument/objection(s) voiced in the Public Statement is King responding to?
2) In a nutshell, what is King's response/counterargument? Condense it into a sentence or two.
3) For each paragraph, which rhetorical strategies, appeals, and devices are most significant in King's argument?
1)Paragraphs 16-19;
2) Paragraphs 20-21;
3)Paragraphs 22-23;
4)Paragraphs 24-25;
5)paragraphs 26-27;
6) Paragraphs 28-30; 1st period did not get to this.
Activity 4 (10 mins): Presentations (perhaps time for 2 or 3)
Homework: Finish reading and annotating paragraphs 30-47 in MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail. Annotate with the same focus we applied to preparing today's presentations. As you read and annotate, ask yourself the following about each paragraph:
1) In this paragraph(s), which argument/objection(s) voiced in the Public Statement is King responding to?
2) In a nutshell, what is King's response/counterargument? Condense it into a sentence or two.
3) For each paragraph, what rhetorical strategies, appeals, and devices are most significant in King's argument?
Tuesday: We will hear presentations on paragraphs 16-30 and on Wed Thursday: Rhetorical Analysis and content quiz on LFBJ (50 points)
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