Practicing Persuasion and Collaboration

Today's Goal: Work with your PSA group to practice selling an idea and working together with a deadline.

The Plan:

1. Read!
2. Vocab Test
3. Infomercial Activity
4. A bit of writing/discussion
5. Talk about your PSA Proposal (Due Nov. 4)

You don't have homework except to read and discuss the PSA with your group. Get on a group chat, start a group text, email each other, do whatever you need to make sure you are in contact and know how to access each other.

Exploring some PSAs

I am sorry that I cannot be with you today. While I am going you are going to watch some examples of PSAs and advertisements whose goals are to promote something of value to society. This will be your goal with your group.

I expect you to be respectful to each other and to the person who is here today in my place. Make sure you thank them for being there.

The Plan:

1. Read until 10:05am! (Remember that there are people in the room who appreciate that time to settle and read, and you need to be respectful of that.)
2. Open this Google Form. You'll need it for most of the class period. If you're absent, you can still do this at home (and you are expected to).
3. Together, you're all going to watch four videos. After each video, you will have an opportunity to do some writing on the Google Form. You will take that opportunity.
4. Then, AND ONLY THEN, you will pick up your computers and move to a place where you are sitting by or near your PSA group members. Together, you will work your way through the last few questions on the Google Form.
5. Once you finish and submit your Google Form, take the rest of the time to work on your two-chunk paragraph from yesterday, if you need to. I will be looking at those in your English Journal tomorrow night. If you don't, need to work on that, find something else to do, like study for your vocab test tomorrow.

HOMEWORK: 

• You have a vocab root test tomorrow.
• I'll be looking at your two-chunk paragraphs on Antony's speech tomorrow night, so finish that in your English Journal.
• Be prepared for some group work tomorrow.

Two-Chunk Analysis and Group Project Organization

How Brutus is going to feel after Antony's done speaking
and rise up in rage and mutiny.

Today's Goal: Write a formal two-chunk paragraph analysis of Antony's use of rhetorical appeals when speaking at Caesar's funeral.

The Plan:

1. Read!
2. Chart devices that Antony uses
3. Write a two-chunk paragraph in your English Journal
4. Introduction to PSA Project

Your Two-Chunk Assignment:

Using the following Topic Sentence, write a two-chunk paragraph that discusses Antony's use of rhetorical appeals.

 Thesis:

Antony uses Aristotle's rhetorical appeals to convince the Romans to trust him over Brutus and the conspirators.

Use this thesis to help you make a topic sentence.

Your topic sentence might look like this:

One of the most effective rhetorical appeals that Antony employs is ______(ethos/logos/pathos).

How do I cite Shakespeare’s work?

Antony begins his speech with the words, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; /I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him” (III.ii.82-83).

Homework:

• Read your book
• Make sure you have the contact information of everyone in your PSA Project Group (seriously, this is important).

Antony's Retaliation

Today's Goal: Identify the ways in which Antony responds to Brutus' speech about Caesar's death.

The Plan:

1. Read!
2. Watch Antony give his speech at Caesar's funeral
3. Read Antony's speech together.

Homework:

• Read your book
• Finish revising your essay and send me an email TODAY if you want me to rescore your essay.
• Vocab Practice Due tomorrow

Justifying your Actions...

Today's Goal: Analyze the ways in which Brutus uses rhetorical strategies to defend his actions toward Caesar.

The Plan:

1. Read!
2. Read and annotate Brutus' speech to the Romans after Caesar's death
3. Write! (in your English Journal)

English Journal Questions (There are 4. Take your time on these.):

1. What argument is implied in Brutus' speech? What is Brutus' goal/purpose? 
2. Which appeal (ethos/logos/pathos) does Brutus use most effectively? How? Why?
3. Give an example of a rhetorical device (rhetorical question/ repetition/circumlocution/etc.) that Brutus uses, and explain which rhetorical appeal (ethos/logos/pathos) it supports. How does the device use make that appeal more effective?
4. How does Brutus introduce Antony before he speaks? What is the purpose of stating that Antony has been allowed to speak "by our permission?" (III.ii.64).

HOMEWORK/Important Dates to remember:

• Vocab Root Practice: CLICK HERE for the Vocab Root CHRON Slides
• Finish revising your essay before tomorrow night (Tuesday) at midnight. (Also, if you haven't turned it in on turnitin.com, you should probably do that. There are only a couple of you.)
• Complete the writing from today. You should have had time in class. If you didn't finish, you're still responsible for that.
• Vocab Root Quiz on Friday
• Book Love Book Review due Monday, November 16 on turnitin.com by midnight.

A SIDE NOTE:

If you rate yourself below a 5 in your English Journal, that means you should go back to your English Journal and turn it into a 5. It's not final until it's graded! Know this before the end of the trimester, and use it to your advantage.

Steve Jobs. Michele Obama. Cassius. Brutus.

Today's Goal: Learn how to concisely summarize a text using a rhetorical precis and Steve Job's Commencement Speech "How to Live Before You Die" (2005).

The Plan:

1. Read!
2. Using the text you made a copy of yesterday and put in your drive, compile a rhetorical precis in your English Journal. A powerpoint is below to help you walk through each part of the rhetorical precis.
3. I haven't decided what we're doing after that. We have a couple choices. I'll decide when we get there.

 

Your only homework is to work on your essay revision if you are choosing to do that. Have a wonderful weekend! 

Steve Jobs: How to Live Before You Die

A Word Cloud of Steve Job's Commencement Speech

Today's Goal: A first look at a speech by Steve Jobs, and SOAPSTone with a partner.

The Plan:

1. Read!
   
2. In your English Journal: Using the Word Cloud above, make a prediction about Steve Jobs' speech, and the message he is going to give his audience. Write a few sentences that includes your prediction, and WHY you are making that prediction.
   
3. Watch his speech. You can find it on TED.com if you're absent. CLICK HERE for the Steve Jobs Commencement Speech TEXT. Make a copy for yourself so you can annotate it. I'm not giving you the paper copy of this one.
   
4. Fill out this Google Form with a partner (you only need to submit one between the two of you.)
   
5. Possibly talk about a rhetorical precis.

If you play your cards right, you do not have homework, BUT I have some news about your essays that will involve some work if you choose to take the offer I present to you.