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Honors English II Homework
Please read pages 13-16 in your info binder. Annotate as we have done in class.
Also, I will need your response to the following: Compare and contrast the rhetoric in King's "I Have a Dream" speech and "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and explain how his rhetoric impacts his audience and purpose.
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Don't forget that you have a vocab quiz tomorrow!
Please read pages 43-44 in your info binder. It is MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." We will use this to do an activity and analysis of audience and rhetoric. Speaker (who is it) Occasion Audience Purpose Subject of the letter Tone-- How does King use rhetoric to impact his audience? As you read, look for figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, allusion), imagery, anaphora or parallelism and repetition, and changes in diction. Please finish reading Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" on pages 35-38. Find examples of figurative language, anaphora (parallelism that repeats the same wording), imagery, and allusion. For further analysis, how do those elements aforementioned influence his purpose? How would you define his rhetoric? Did he use much logos, pathos, or ethos? If so, where, how, and why?
Take a breath! You have no reading this weekend. Make sure that you are looking over your vocabulary words and reviewing your phrases list. We will do an additional review of phrases on Tuesday.
Please complete the sheet with the chart. We will go over in more detail FDR's speech and check your work. Please keep in mind the purpose and how the author achieved his purpose through rhetoric. How did dashes influence his message?
Tonight, please read pages 31 (Eleanor Roosevelt) and 33 (FDR) in your info binder. Determine how the authors are using ethos, pathos, and logos in their writing. What is the purpose for that rhetoric?
Also, if you lose or cannot read the BLUE handout that has the RUBRIC for the speech, I have uploaded the document in the Honors English II Documents page on this website. I expect your speech proposal by no later than August 30. We will go to the library on September 6 to find CREDIBLE sources and cite them properly with MLA. Onward to Rhetoric! We will begin our unit on ethos, pathos, and logos and discuss how rhetorical devices have influence and purpose.
For your unit project, you will present a speech of 1.5-3 minutes on a topic of your choosing (pending my approval). You will use rhetorical devices and appeals to create interest. Don't forget that your 2nd part of your Unit 1 Poetry test is tomorrow. Don't sweat! It's multiple choice/multiple select. I will grade on a cube root. Whew! Right?
Also, your poetry project is due this week (August 22nd to be exact). Check the PINK rubric to see what needs to be done and how I expect it to be done. Finally, in your phrases packet, please complete the unit 3 review on the left-hand side of the packet. This is due on Wednesday August 21st. Remember to study over your notes about various poems and how the authors used the literary terms and why they used the terms (for what purpose?).
The essay portion will be Monday, and the multiple choice/multiple select will be Tuesday. Your poetry project is due on August 22nd. Since you have the materials on hand, I would advise you to work on this. |
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