Learning Target: I can work with a classmate to annotate for characters and setting in Behind The Beautiful Forevers.

Activity 1:  Three column journal. List of characters/relationship to other characters/key characteristics/details

Annotations 2: What is the setting? Time, place, physical and cultural characteristics. 

Watch a portion of These Birds Walk

Homework: 
Read and annotate Chapter 1: Annawadi.  Write QUESTIONS in the margin!

Learning Target: I can watch a documentary on a culture and experiences very different from my own in preparation for reading Behind The Beautiful Forevers.

Quickwrite 1:  What do you know about India and Pakistan?

Quickwrite 2: What do you think the phrase Behind the Beautiful Forevers could mean?  There are no right or wrong answers.


Watch a portion of These Birds Walk

While watching the movie, take notes on the lives of the characters and consider what you might do in their situation.

Also, pay attention to the rhetorical strategies employed by the filmmakers.  How do they present their subject? What is their point of view?
How do they highlight and emphasize certain content in order to achieve a certain purpose/argument?

Homework: 

For Thursday: Review LFBJ in prep for AP-style practice essay tomorrow in DC

For Friday: Review for LFBJ quiz; bring  

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;

Quiz tomorrow on content and rhetoric of LFBJ
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?

Monday: In-class rhetorical analysis essay for Letter from Birmingham Jail (you may use your annotated copy of Letter from Birmingham Jail)

Tuesday: We will hear presentations on paragraphs 16-30 and on Wed  Thursday: Rhetorical Analysis and content quiz on LFBJ (50 points) 






Cancel 3/27 library or DC time
Find the articles and stuff that Aaron has sent

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

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 1 (10-15 mins): Finish yesterday's presentations (approx 4 minutes per presentation)

4)Paragraphs 9-11; 
5)paragraphs 12-13; 
6) Paragraphs 14-15;
Period 9: last two groups still have to present
Period 10: Last three groups still have to present

Activity 2 (6 mins):
mini-lesson on syntax in par 13

Syntax in Letter From Birmingham Jail: repetition, anaphora, loose and periodic sentences

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?

Monday: In-class rhetorical analysis essay for Letter from Birmingham Jail (you may use your annotated copy of Letter from Birmingham Jail)

Tuesday: We will hear presentations on paragraphs 16-30 and on Wed we will hear presentations on 30-47. Thursday: Rhetorical Analysis and content quiz on LFBJ (50 points) 

Learning Target: I can identify King's arguments as well as the rhetorical elements and strategies he employs to achieve his purposes.

New Seating Arrangement and chart

Activity 1: Discuss the arguments and rhetorical elements and strategies in each paragraph.

Some things to think about...

Although you have not yet read the entire letter, what do you believe to be King's overall purpose(s)?

What part of the Public Statement is King responding to in each paragraph?


Appeals...
Ethos, Logos, Pathos and authorities
 -  Consider ethos from two perspectives... The Good Man Speaking Well (i.e., the credibility of the author) and the author's appeal to the ethics of the audience.

Authorities...Allusions to authoritative sources or persons (e.g., Bible, Constitution, Abraham Lincoln, etc.)

Which appeals are most prominent in each paragraph (ethos, logos, pathos)?

How does King's word choice reflect and further his purposes in each paragraph?

Where do you see King using figurative language? What is the purpose and the effect?

Where do you see distinctive sentence and phrasing patterns?  What are their effects? How do they help MLK achieve his purpose?

Syntax in Letter From Birmingham Jail: Repetition, Anaphora, Loose and Periodic Sentences

Closely related to authorities...allusions...but not all allusions are to authorities...many are to current events, public figures, etc.

For an appeal to an authority to be effective, it must work for the intended audiences. Why do his appeals work for his audience?

Explain each allusion as best as you can from prior knowledge, research (with phones), or context.

Which allusions were slightly confusing or simply foreign to you, an unintended audience?

Where do you see transitions from one section/purpose of the letter to another? 

1)Paragraphs 1-3; 
2) Paragraphs 4-6; 
3)Paragraphs 7-8; 
4)Paragraphs 9-11; 
5)paragraphs 12-13; 
6) Paragraphs 14-15

15 minutes of research and then present to the class for 4 mins each Activity 2: Begin reading and annotating paragraphs 16-30 for tomorrow.

Homework: Finish reading and annotating paragraphs 16-30 in MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail  

Annotate for King's arguments and points as well as the rhetorical strategies and elements he employs to achieve those strategies.

Monday: In-class rhetorical analysis essay for Letter from Birmingham Jail

Learning Target: I can identify King's arguments as well as the rhetorical elements and strategies he employs to achieve his purposes.

Overview of Social Justice Unit

Activity 1: What do you know about the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King?

Activity 2: Begin reading and annotating the Public Statement by Eight Alabama Clergymen

Homework: Read and annotate paragraphs 1-15 MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail  

Annotate for King's arguments and points as well as the rhetorical strategies and elements he employs to achieve those strategies.

Monday: In-class rhetorical analysis essay for Letter from Birmingham Jail