Early American Writers: The American Revolution, cont.

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Early American WritersThe American Revolution,
cont.

• Put yourself in the listeners shoes imagine
  that you are one of the following people who was
  present at Henrys speech that day in Va.
• Comment on how you would react/respond if you
  were him/her.
• Also, pick the persuasive element(s) that would
  affect your character the most be specific and
  actually look at your text to choose.

1. The wife of one of the delegates
2. A farmer whose parents live in England
3. A member of the Va. Militia
4. A clergyman
5. An African enslaved in the colony

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Daily Agenda

• Identify and examine elements of persuasion.
• Identify and examine intended audience and bias.
• Locate and evaluate the use of anecdotes
• Paraphrase main ideas, summarize information, and
  take notes.
• Decipher antiquated sentence structures and
  vocabulary.

• Receive 1st set of stems
• Review main ideas from Speech
• AV intended audience, bias, anecdote
• Get in PC groups to locate persuasive techniques
  in The Crisis
• If time at end of class work on PC projects
• Homework come with ideas and materials prepared
  to work.

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Thomas Paine

• What was so unique about Paine?
• He spoke to the average man common workers
  and felt all men were capable of understanding
  and participating in the government.
• He was raw, full of energy, direct, and not
  afraid to hurt feelings.
• He was RADICAL, but that was what America needed
  at that time.

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Intended Audience

• Patrick Henry knew he had a mixed audience, so he
  wrote with lines to hit each listener.
• After reading the background and first
  paragraph of The Crisis, make a prediction
  about Paines intended audience.

• The person or persons who are intended to read a
  piece of writing. This will determine the form,
  style, tone, and details included.
• Ex. Imagine youre an explorer
• A piece of writing written for your King would be
  formal, loyal/patriotic, and give details of your
  hard work.
• A letter to your wife would be informal and would
  include more honest emotion and personal
  feelings.

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Bias

• Was Henry biased?
• Yes he wasnt extreme or hateful, but he was
  biased towards the war/revolution and against
  Britain.
• Look in your reading for a bias in Paine. Search
  for
• Name Calling referring to others with hateful
  language.
• Card Stacking presenting several facts for one
  side as good (even if they arent).

• An inclination toward a particular judgment on a
  topic or issue. A writer often reveals a strongly
  positive or negative opinion by presenting only
  one way of looking at an issue or by heavily
  weighting the evidence.
• Words with intensely positive or negative
  connotations are often a signal of bias.

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Anecdote

• This illustrates her courage and determination in
  attempting the seemingly impossible.
• Look for the Anecdote of the Tory Parent
• Determine what the point is that Paine is trying
  to illustrate by telling about this event in his
  life.

• A brief story that focuses on a single episode or
  event in a persons life and that is used to
  illustrate a particular point.
• Author Sandra Cisneros gave an anecdote about the
  challenge she faced when ordered to make corn
  tortillas, a task she had never done before.

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Literary Elements in The Crisis

• He card-stacks when referring to the colonists
  retreat, turning it into a completely good thing.
  
• Anecdote (p. 248, l. 32-39)
• Tories are self-centered. Parents should be more
  concerned with their childrens welfare than
  their own.
• Ethos Im more ethical than that Im selfless
  and devoted - how a parent should be.
• Pathos love and protectiveness towards your
  children, plus appealing to the vanity of not
  wanting to look like the Tory dad.

• Intended Audience
• Self-doubting soldiers
• Hesitant colonists who had begun to lose hope
• Common workers who may have been confused by
  other revolutionary writers
• Bias
• Yes, Paine is biased towards the Revolution and
  against Britain.
• He uses very hateful language to refer to the
  King (name-calling)

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Homework

• Start reviewing over Unit 1 ideas
• Both projects and Unit 1 Test due next week.
• Continuing working on and brainstorming for
  Presidential Campaign projects.
• Bring materials to class next time to work on
  posters, speeches, and projects.
• Next class Work day
• Class after Projects due
• Class after that Unit 1 Test