Objective: Students read and summarize the second section (“Content and Form”) of “What is Rhetoric?” in pairs and add to their vocabulary logs and summaries from the previous lesson.
Objective: In this lesson, students will read about what makes an effective summary, revise their summaries from the previous day, and discuss the differences between persuasion, argument, and propaganda.
Objectives: In this lesson, students study the three rhetorical appeals: ethos, logos, and pathos with a non-print text and a deep vocabulary task. They revise their summaries, begun in lesson 1, one final time.
Objectives: In this lesson, students begin the extension task for the unit: a speech and multimedia presentation that puts forward a position on a self-selected topic. Students select and narrow their topic, creating a research question.
Objective: Students begin to identify sources for their research on a selected topic and in preparation for completing the extension task (a speech and a multimedia presentation).
Objective: Students read the text “Address to the Congress on Women’s Suffrage” for the first time, work with words from the text, and mark the text’s organizational structure.
1. What organizational structures does Carrie Chapman Catt use to set up her speech? (Choose from the "Test Structure Signal Words" handout). Explain how she does this in her speech. (Be specific, use quoted lines.)
2. Why does this make her speech effective?
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