Weekend review sessions:
- Saturday at 1:00 p.m. in Room 14
- Sunday at 3:00 p.m. in Room 14
I’ll leave the History hallway door open. Please be on time so we can all begin at the same time.
We’re going to continue our discussion of On Resistance to Civil Government in class on Wednesday. If, for some reason, you have not completed
your annotation or Thoreau reading (hah!) take the opportunity to do so this evening.
As Thoreau said:
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one… characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
In the event you’ve misplaced or forgotten your packet for the Politics and Protest
unit, you can download the readings here. The first assignment, for Monday, April 8th is to read the pieces by Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine.
Make sure to thoroughly annotate the articles, looking for:
- clever uses of language
- elements of persuasion
- rhetorical devices
- and more.
For your revision of the Kennedy analysis speech, you can either write a 40 minute timed-write 
(hand-written) or a full 800-1200 typed revision. The latter should reflect careful revision and editing and the former should be awesome.
Useful Links
On Tuesday, we reviewed the major elements of rhetorical analysis (LPEK, WILDS/Tone, and
SOAPS) and applied those terms and ideas to a series of advertisements and speeches. The items we discussed are listed below:
- Subaru Dad
- Matt Damon on Education
- Anti-Obama Ad
- China Takeover Ad
- United Ad
- Matt Damon Water/Sanitation
- Debbie Spend It Now
- Kindle Ad
Remember, that as soon as Thursday, you should be prepared to present and lead a discussion on your own example of rhetoric any day in the next two weeks.