Essential Questions
1. What elements make a persuasive text great?
2. For what purposes have persuasive texts been written and delivered throughout history?
3. How can rhetoric be used effectively in our own efforts to
persuade?
A. Opening Assignment: Punctuation Review
On your own paper, write each of the circled sentences, adding commas where necessary.
B. Watch clip from Clueless. Answer the speech analysis questions with a partner after we have watched the clip.
C. Discuss the clip (3 corners method).
D. Complete quotations from famous speeches activity.
E. Closing: Answer the following questions on your own paper.
1. List five occasions on which a person might deliver an important speech.
2. List five elements the content of a great speech might include.
3. List five aspects of delivery that can help bring the purpose or message of a speech across to an audience.
Note: Literary Terms Quiz #2 will be this Friday, 12/5.
a. denotation
b. documentary
c. conflict
d. diction
f. figurative language
g. free verse
h. fable
i. farce
j. imagery
k. inference
l. flashback
m. foreshadowing
n. literal