November 2, 2015

Welcome to WEEK 9!
CO: Students will demonstrate analysis of how complex characters develop over the course of a text by examining the dialogue between Cassius and Brutus in Act I Scene ii.
LO: Students will speak and record information to introduce claims from the dialogue and establish clear relationships among claims, evidence, and reasoning.

1. SSR + graph number of pages
2. Bell work: Look at Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle. Draw it on your bell work paper. Write a sentence or two explaining how the speaker, subject, and audience are all connected in rhetoric.
3. Thinking map to show rhetorical appeals & rhetorical devices:
Guiding question
Frame of reference
Clear explanation of rhetorical appeals and rhetorical devices (how are they connected/related & what is the function of each)
4. Independently: Revisit Brutus’s and Cassius’s dialogue from Act I Scene ii. You must find 2 examples of logos, pathos, and ethos in the dialogue. Record specific lines and provide commentary.
5. Homework: Reading and annotating Brutus’s soliloquy. A soliloquy is an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.

REMINDERS:
Week 9 vocabulary due Friday Nov.6th

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