216 thru 218 How do you tell the story of a life What are the expectations challenges and implications of telling the story of a life in the genre of the Autobiography How and why do writers tell their ID: 495905
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MLK, Jr.
2/16 thru 2/18Slide2
How do you tell the story of a life?
What are the expectations, challenges, and implications of telling the story of a life in the genre of the Autobiography?
How and why do writers tell their
own
story?
How can writers establish credibility? How can readers know or trust a writer? Do readers need to?
How do writers blend fact and fiction?
What are the characteristics of a genre? How and to what effect do authors use these characteristics? Slide3
Agenda Tuesday, 2/16
The Montgomery Bus Boycotts - Identifying the Recipe
Exam Paper 2 - Practice Slide4
Montgomery Bus Boycott
King writes that the Black community in Montgomery:
“Acquired a new sense of
somebodiness and self-respect
, and had a new determination to achieve freedom and human dignity no matter what the cost.”
This is the outcome of his recipe for social action and change. How did it happen? Slide5
Recipe for Change
With a partner or alone…Go back to the text. Read closely in order to write
the recipe for social action
as seen in the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
How did it work? What strategies were used?
Why did it work? Why were those actions effective?
You will need finite and specific information - this is not the time to generalize in broad sweeping strokes.
Demonstrate your knowledge of the text.
Create a T-Chart.
On one side: Strategies used The other: Effectiveness of StrategySlide6
Recipe for Social Action
How and why was the Montgomery Bus Boycott effective?
Could Non-Violent Resistance be as effective today as it was then? Where will it still work? What are the new challenges? Slide7
Exam Prep (Paper 2)
“Literature speaks powerfully to what the individual has the potential to become.”
Comment on this in the context of your study.
This is what a prompt might look like, so...Slide8
Exam Prep - 10 Minutes to discuss w/partner, group
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Literature speaks powerfully about what the individual has the power to become.
Does this text speak powerfully about what the individual has the potential to become?
If yes, how so?
If no, why not? And then, what DOES it speak to?
Other aspects to consider in your response:
Consider the challenges faced
Consider what King “becomes”
Consider how the genre of autobiography attempts to speak to what an individual can becomeSlide9
Written Response - Include Text Evidence
Literature speaks powerfully about what the individual has the power to become.
To what extent is this statement relevant to the opening chapters?
How to get into this:
Introduce the text.
State that it speaks powerfully (or not) to what an individual can become.
Method statement – how does it do this
Point, Evidence, AnalysisSlide10
Agenda, Thursday 2/18
The Role of the Narrator
The Art of Rhetoric and Rhetorical Analysis
Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Analysis
Exam PrepSlide11
Discussion Prep - Written Response (Chart? Prose?)
Consider how we have come to know King’s character. Use evidence from the text to support your understanding of King. What do we know about him:
Morally
Ethically
Spiritually
Religiously
Intellectually
How have the modes used to construct the autobiographical account contributed to these? (Letters, sermons, speeches, journals, memoir)Slide12
Class Discussion
What is problematic about the idea of character construction in an autobiography?
In what ways does King’s text succeed and fail to present a rounded character? Slide13
Why Write Non-Fiction?
To author a vision of the world as it was
To author a vision of the world as it is
To author a vision of the world or as it should be.Slide14
Ambiguity
In the first semester, think of the texts (Dillard, Blake, Shakespeare specifically) we saw ambiguity as an enriching, even unavoidable element of fiction and poetry.
Keeps the text relevant
Allows us to see multiple layers of meaning
Allows us to see ourselves within
Expresses what we may not immediately have language to express
But how might ambiguity be a problem for the writer of Non-fiction?
Why?Slide15
Why Write Non-Fiction?
To remove confusion, ambiguity
To unite in solidarity
To persuade the reader to believe as you doSlide16
Role of narrator: The Writer Hero?
Fights with ideas and words
Presents an argument
PersuadesSlide17
Argumentation (Rhetoric)
What do you know about argumentation?
Aristotle postulated three argumentative appeals:
Logical :
Logos
Emotional :
pathos
Ethical :
ethos
See handout Three Appeals of ArgumentSlide18
Chunking the Text
“The Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Group 1: Part 1 – paragraphs 1 -14
Group 2: Part 2 – paragraphs 15 – 27
Group 3: Part 3 – paragraphs 28 – 37
Group 4: Part 4 – paragraphs 38 - 52Slide19
On your own...
Re-read the letter (your part and on your own)
What are “the moves” of the non-fiction writer? Keep a running list of ways that he asserts his vision.
How does King appeal to ethos, pathos, and logos?
Label the appeal
Note how it works: credibility and effectivenessSlide20
Discuss with your group...
Make a list of the rhetorical moves you see in “The Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Try to label them together.
Be prepared to share out what you see King using and the effect. Slide21
Reflection for Exams
What does this letter reveal about how we write effectively in the genre of non-fiction?
What does the “The Letter of Birmingham Jail” reveal about the value of non-fiction texts?Slide22
Homework
As you read “I have a Dream” - keep track of all the aspects of imagery you encounter.