Rhetorical Appeals in Michelle Obama's TED Talk

This is a word cloud of Michelle Obama's speech (that we watched yesterday). The biggest words are the words she says most often. What can you learn from looking at the most commonly used words in a speech?

Today's Goal: Use Michelle Obama's speech to look specifically at rhetorical devices and appeals, and how they work together to help support an argument.

The Plan (probably in this order):

1. Read (as usual!)
2. Return to Michelle Obama's speech to learn more about how she uses rhetorical devices and appeals to support her argument.
3. Some writing
4. A second look at the Act I, Scene ii excerpt from last Friday

WRITING PROMPTS (IN YOUR ENGLISH JOURNAL):

FIRST, write about the Michelle Obama TED Talk Response:

What devices does Mrs. Obama use to express her argument/message that young women are strong, independent, and capable of becoming educated leaders of the world? How do those devices enhance ethos/logos/pathos? (For example, if she uses an anecdote, and that anecdote enhances her ethos, how does that happen? How do you know?)

THEN, return to the Act 1, Scene ii excerpt from Julius Caesar and reread it.

What new understandings did you gain from reading it again? What devices and appeals did you notice that you had not noticed before? What do you think Brutus is prepared to do for his country and how do you know this?

Homework:

• Vocab Root Practice due tomorrow
• Read your book
• Complete the writing assignment in your English Journal if you did not do it or finish it today in class. (Tomorrow I'm going to ask you to self-grade your English Journal, so be prepared for that.)

Michelle Obama TED Talk

Today's Goal: Use SOAPSTone to analyze Michelle Obama's TED Talk, and identify devices and appeals that support her argument.

The Plan:

1. Watch the TED Talk
2. SOAPSTone
3. Rewatch the TED Talk, paying closer attention (and annotating her text) to the devices and appeals that Mrs. Obama employs to enhance her message.

HOMEWORK:

• Vocab CAD/CID/CAS due Wednesday. CLICK HERE for the Vocab Slides
• You have one more night (tonight) to get your homework from the weekend done. Then, it becomes a zero. (Click here for that form)

Vocab Root Quiz and a TED Talk

Two Goals Today:

1. Take your Vocab Root Test
2. Watch this TED Talk and then take some notes on good and evil

We're going to try this Illuminate thing again. (Don't worry. If it doesn't work, I have paper scantrons. Not getting out of this one.)

CLICK HERE FOR THE CORRECT LINK to take your Vocab Root Test. It will time you. Once you press start, you have 15 minutes to answer the 21 questions.

• your username is the first part of your email (ex: blacka386)
• your password is Csd12345 (the numbers are your student number)
• you should write this information on your tech cheat sheet.

In your English Journal (after the Ted Talk):

• What does Philip Zombardo believe: that humans are inherently good or that humans are inherently evil? 
• List FOUR pieces of evidence that support your answer (you don't need quotes, but you should be specific.)

You'll be using what you know about this TED Talk and the evidence he presents in your Socratic Seminar coming up.


HOMEWORK:

1. Read Chapter 6 of Lord of the Flies
2. Read more of your Book Love book. You should be about halfway on September 23.
3. Submit your IMAGERY paragraph on turnitin.com (One per partner) by 9 pm tonight. I will not take paper copies.
4. Resubmit your SYMBOLISM paragraph ON PAPER if I gave it back to you. You will have a zero until you've submitted it on turnitin.com and the MLA formatting is perfect.