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Wed/Thurs
January 7/8
Bellringer
 Turn in your HW.
 Read Coretta Scott King’s speech. Recall yesterday’s
journal topic.
 Next, pairs reread the speech, filling in terms around the
SMART Chart. This activity involves both identifying
examples of the rhetorical techniques and associating
them with particular appeals (ethos, pathos, or logos).
 For example, King says, “Morality is never upheld by
legalized murder.” This is an example of using a word
with a strong negative connotation (murder) for
emotional effect, so you would write “connotation” on
one of the spokes near pathos.
 Objectives:
 Identify and evaluate the effectiveness of
speakers’ use of ethos, pathos, logos, and
the rhetorical elements that contribute to
them.
 Analyze how perspective and purpose
influence rhetorical choices and compare
the effectiveness of rhetorical strategies in
Brutus’s and Marc Antony’s speeches in Act
3, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar
 Essential Questions:
 How do writers and speakers persuade their
audiences to adjust or change their
positions?
 How does the author’s perspective influence
his/her rhetorical choices?
 Standards:
 RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or
purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is
particularly effective, analyzing how style and
content contribute to the power,
persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.
 SL3: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view,
reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric,
assessing the stance, premises, links among
ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and
tone used.
 L3: Apply knowledge of language to
understand how language functions in
different contexts, to make effective choices
for meaning or style, and to comprehend more
fully when reading or listening.
 We will analyze Brutus and Marc Antony’s speeches.
 We will start with Brutus.
 You will have a group task and an independent task. When you finish
with Brutus’s speech, you will do the same with Marc Antony’s
speech.
 Synecdoche (Si-neck-da-key): A form of metaphor.

A part of something is used to signify the whole. Also, the reverse can be true where
the whole can represent the part.
 Canada played in the U.S. hockey finals. In reality, the Canadian team played the U.S. team, not
the entire country.)

Another from involves the container representing the thing being contained.
 The pot is boiling. (In reality, the pot isn’t boiling, just the water in the pot.)

Also, it can involve the material form which an object is made standing for the object.
 The quarterback tossed the pigskin. (The football is made of pigskin)
 Claim/Counterclaim
 Irony/Sarcasm (Tone)
 Repetition
 Parallel structure
 Rhetorical questions
With a partner
 Listen
Independently
 After completing the task with the group, you
are now working independently:
 Then, reread with small group and note the
ethos, pathos, logos.
 1. Highlight the elements with different colors
to distinguish between them. (for example,
yellow for ethos, green for pathos, etc.)
 2. Circle the repeated words (repetition that
helps create tone)
 3. Underline the claim/counterclaim
 4. Draw squiggles under examples of irony
 5. Write question marks on the rhetorical
questions
 Write a paragraph:
 Evaluate the effectiveness of the
rhetorical elements Brutus uses to
justify his claim. YOU MUST use
specific examples. If you were in
the crowd, would his speech
persuade you to support his
position?
 After Brutus speaks, Marc Antony and others bring in Caesar’s body. Brutus tells
the crowd that he and other conspirators have given Marc Antony permission to
deliver Caesar’s eulogy.
With a partner
 Listen
Independently
 After completing the task with the group, you
are now working independently:
 Then, reread with small group and note the
ethos, pathos, logos.
 Highlight the elements with different colors to
distinguish between them. (for example,
yellow for ethos, green for pathos, etc.)
 Circle the repeated words (repetition that
helps create tone)
 Underline the claim/counterclaim
 Draw squiggles under synecdoche
 Write question marks on the rhetorical
questions
 Write a paragraph in which you
evaluate the effectiveness of the
various rhetorical elements Marc
Antony uses to discredit Brutus. YOU
MUST include specific examples. If
you were in a crowd, would his
speech persuade you to support his
position?