Rhetoric and the Rhetorical Situation Continued - PowerPoint Presentation

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Rhetoric and the Rhetorical Situation ContinuedSlide2

Today, I’ll learn to analyze text using concrete evidence to draw abstract associations in order to make a

valid synthesis

claim.I’ll know I have learned this when my synthesis claim meets or exceeds the criteria for success.This is important to me because cultivating strategies toward crafting a claim are central to developing my analytical eye, voice, and mind.HOMEWORK:Due Friday, 8/25: read and annotate “A Survey of Rhetoric” (CHANGE FROM THE CALENDAR DRAFT)

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Objective and Rationale – 8/21/17Slide3

Draw a line down a page in your class notes notebook

Title the left column “concrete evidence”

Title the right column “abstract associations”Look CLOSELY at the imageTake two minutes to detail the concrete evidence you SEE in the left column3

Image Analysis Part ONE Slide4

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Vandalized Confederate Memorial (Pensacola, FL)Slide5

Share out concrete details/evidence in triadsADD to your list if someone saw something you missed

Take a minute to read your list of concrete details/evidence and abstract from what you see to what that concrete details/evidence make you FEEL and THINK (abstract associations)

Take two minutes to list the abstract associations you make from the concrete details/evidence listed on the left5Image Analysis Part TWO Slide6

In your notebook, independently craft an original claim (one sentence) using at least one of your abstract associations.

Support that abstract association with concrete evidence from the text.

Share your claim with your triad.Revise based on the criteria.6Make a Valid Synthesis Claim Slide7

Successful claims will feature…

the

author and the text (in this case, just name the text “image of a vandalized Civil War memorial” - no author);an arguable statement supported by concrete evidence from the text;a balance of abstract associations and concrete evidence;one legible sentence; and zero spelling, punctuation, or capitalization errors

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Criteria for Success – Crafting a Valid Synthesis ClaimSlide8

Published on Aug 19, 2017

On CNN

Newday with Victor BlackwellFounder of Foundation for Liberty & America for Greatness Nick AdamsExecutive Director for ColorChange.org, Rashad Robinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1pBNa7_spE&authuser=0

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You Are NOT AMERICANSlide9

Writer

Text ReadersReaders existing in Readers represented Readers as theywriter’s mind: in the text: actually exist:intended/ideal readers

invoked readers real readers

Lunsford

, Andrea A., and John J.

Ruszkiewicz

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Everything’s an Argument

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Bedford/St

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2013. 23

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Dimensions of AudienceSlide10

Today, I’ll learn to analyze and craft a valid synthesis claim about the rhetorical situation of Winston Churchill’s “Blood, Toil, Sweat, and Tears” speech.

I’ll know I have learned this when my synthesis claim about the rhetorical situation meets or exceeds the criteria for success.

This is important to me because cultivating analytical strategies toward crafting a synthesis claim is critical to the work of rhetorical analysis.10Objective and Rationale – 8/22/17Slide11

Strong rhetorical functionSpeeches

Letters

Subtle rhetorical functionEssaysExcerpts from larger nonfiction worksAutobiographiesBiographiesSciencePoliticsPhilosophyCommon Texts for Rhetorical AnalysisSlide12

Forensic – to argue guilt or innocence

Epideictic – to seek a judgment of quality from the audience

Eulogy (to commemorate a person who has died)Encomium (to praise a person on thing)Gorgias’ Encomium of HelenApologia (to justify or apologize for an action)Deliberative – to decide a course of future action

Top 100 SpeechesSpeechesSlide13

Analysis – separation of whole into parts Synthesis

– combining parts to form a

wholeAnalysis Leads to SynthesisSlide14

Go over CAPP elements- annotate for those

Volunteer to read speech a la Churchill

Independently complete CAPP chartShare out evidence in triads – add to chartsCraft valid synthesis claim about the rhetorical situation independentlyLook at exemplarRevise claims based on exemplar and criteria for successShare outOne person in triad turn in CAPP14

CAPP Analysis and Valid Synthesis Claim about the Rhetorical SituationSlide15

Successful claims will feature…

the author/speaker/writer/artist

and the text;an arguable statement supported by concrete evidence from the text;a balance of abstract associations and concrete evidence;a synthesis CAPP elements; one or two legible sentences; and

zero spelling, punctuation, or capitalization errors

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Criteria for Success – Crafting a Valid Synthesis Claim about the Rhetorical SituationSlide16

Speaking to a skeptical yet concerned House of Commons on May 13, 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill pleads with the leaders of Britain to band together, despite their trepidations, “to wage war against a monstrous tyranny” or else face the almost certain destruction of their beloved British Empire.

Churchill Rhetorical SituationSlide17

Today, I’ll learn to analyze and craft a valid synthesis claim about the rhetorical situation of an excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

I’ll know I have learned this when my synthesis claim about the rhetorical situation meets or exceeds the criteria for success.

This is important to me because cultivating analytical strategies toward crafting a synthesis claim is critical to the work of rhetorical analysis.17Objective and Rationale – 8/23/17Slide18

Go over CAPP elements- annotate for those

Volunteer to read letter a la King

Independently complete CAPP chartShare out evidence in triads – add to chartsCraft valid synthesis claim about the rhetorical situation independentlyLook at exemplarRevise claims based on exemplar and criteria for successShare outOne person in triad turn in CAPP18

CAPP Analysis and Valid Synthesis Claim about the Rhetorical SituationSlide19

Successful claims will feature…

the author/speaker/writer/artist

and the text;an arguable statement supported by concrete evidence from the text;a balance of abstract associations and concrete evidence;a synthesis CAPP elements; one or two legible sentences; and

zero spelling, punctuation, or capitalization errors

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Criteria for Success – Crafting a Valid Synthesis Claim about the Rhetorical SituationSlide20

Writing from a jail in Birmingham, angered by the ignorance and intolerance of those who “never felt the stinging darts of segregation,” Martin Luther King, Jr. pleads with the local white church leadership in 1963 to swiftly advance the cause of equality for African American people.

King Rhetorical SituationSlide21

Today, I’ll learn to analyze and craft a valid synthesis claim about the rhetorical situation of an excerpt from

Florence Kelley’s speech to the NAWSA.

I’ll know I have learned this when my synthesis claim about the rhetorical situation meets or exceeds the criteria for success.This is important to me because cultivating analytical strategies toward crafting a synthesis claim is critical to the work of rhetorical analysis.21Objective and Rationale – 8/24/17Slide22

Go over CAPP elements- annotate for those

Volunteer to read letter a la Kelley

Independently complete CAPP chartShare out evidence in triads – add to chartsCraft valid synthesis claim about the rhetorical situation independentlyLook at exemplarRevise claims based on exemplar and criteria for successShare outOne person in triad turn in CAPP22

CAPP Analysis and Valid Synthesis Claim about the Rhetorical SituationSlide23

Successful claims will feature…

the author/speaker/writer/artist

and the text;an arguable statement supported by concrete evidence from the text;a balance of abstract associations and concrete evidence;a synthesis CAPP elements; one or two legible sentences; and

zero spelling, punctuation, or capitalization errors

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Criteria for Success – Crafting a Valid Synthesis Claim about the Rhetorical SituationSlide24

“At the beginning of the 20th century, American social worker and reformer Florence Kelley fought for the improved livelihood of working women and children. At the convention of the NAWSA in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905, Kelley countered their exploitation by using their abject situations to recruit other women to her greater cause: gathering support for women’s suffrage.”

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Student, AP English Language Exam, May 2011Question 2: Rhetorical AnalysisKelley Rhetorical SituationSlide25

Today, I’ll learn to integrate appositive phrases into my writing.I’ll know I have learned this when I accurately use appositive phrases in my sentence imitation exercises.

This is important to me because appositive phrases make my writing more sophisticated.

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An appositive is a 

noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words.

The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table.The insect, a large cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table.The insect, a large cockroach with hairy legs, is crawling across the kitchen table.The insect, a large, hairy-legged cockroach that has spied my bowl of oatmeal, is crawling across the kitchen table.

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The Appositive PhraseSlide27

The important thing to remember is that a nonessential appositive is

always

separated from the rest of the sentence with comma(s).When the appositive begins the sentence, it looks like this: A hot-tempered tennis player, Robbie charged the umpire and tried to crack the poor man's skull with a racket.27

Punctuating Appositive PhrasesSlide28

When the appositive

interrupts

the sentence, it looks like this: Robbie, a hot-tempered tennis player, charged the umpire and tried to crack the poor man's skull with a racket.When the appositive ends the sentence, it looks like this:

Upset by the bad call, the crowd cheered Robbie, a hot-tempered tennis player who charged the umpire and tried to

crack the poor man's skull with

a racket.

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Punctuating Appositive Phrases ContinuedSlide29

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Appositive Phrases – Practice