English 11 Unit 7-3

English 11 Unit 7-3

Redefining Home

The Reaction to Change

7-1 Due Date 4/19

7-2 Due Date 4/26

7-3 Due Date 5/3

7.4.3 CST Due Date 5/6

​Objectives

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• Identify rhetorical devices in a narrative essay.

• Analyze a narrative essay to determine its central idea.

• Eliminated Discussion objective.

• Develop a works-cited page.

• Develop a speech based on a research essay.

​7.3.1 page 4

​As the changes — for better and for worse — took place in the United States, African American authors used their writing as a way to peacefully protest the injustices they saw all around them.

In particular, literary nonfiction was an effective tool for authors to advocate for social change. Writers communicated through speeches, letters, and essays using narrative techniques to convey factual information and present their ideas to an audience.

Instead of escalating violence through a physical confrontation,

writers could create a careful, measured tone to address injustice and inspire a sense of unity.

• Writing that uses narrative techniques to convey factual information.

​7.3.1 page 5

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Speeches were some of the most memorable texts of the civil rights movement. Politicians and other leaders gave speeches using rhetorical devices to convey ideas about social change. A rhetorical device is a persuasive technique used to convince an audience, and speechwriters are experts at using them effectively.

For example, think about Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. This speech famously used repetition, a rhetorical device, to impact his audience and drive his point home. Often, when people hear the phrase, "I have a dream," they think of this speech and King's desire to bring the people together in peace.

​Rhetorical Devices 7.3.1

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is correct?

• The war in Ukraine caused NATO to join together, and they put sanctions on Russia, and everyone stopped buying Russian oil.

• Because of the war in Ukraine, NATO nations joined together, sanctioned Russia, and stopped buying Russian oil.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is correct?

• The English teacher had an unpleasant, nasal tone, but conveyed the information clearly and humorously.

• The English teacher spoke in a nasal tone, unpleasantly, but conveying the information clearly and was funny.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is correct?

• Benefits of coaching include: knowing each player, helping that player to improve and to get to see that person succeed in life.

• Benefits of coaching include: knowing each player, helping that player improve, and seeing that person succeed in life.

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is this:

The student said, "Great I'm late again" as she walked into the classroom.

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Verbal Irony

• Paradox

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is this:

The mom was a real bear when she didn't get her coffee in the morning.

• Metaphor

• Similie

• Pun

• Personification

Multiple Choice

You're a spoon, I'm a fork, we belong together.

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

I’ve told you to clean your room a million times.

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is a Metaphor?

• A computer is hitting when I'm wrong

• He is as tall as a baby

• A black light in the club made me feel dizzy

• The ant soldiered on to steal my ice-cream

Match

Match the following

• Parallelism

• Imagery

• Figurative Language

That's one small piece of cheese for me, and one giant piece of cheese for you.

Cheese, that yellowish, pungent, thick block of dairy product, is my favorite food.

The cheese's personality was rather sharp.

• That's one small piece of cheese for me, and one giant piece of cheese for you.

• Cheese, that yellowish, pungent, thick block of dairy product, is my favorite food.

• The cheese's personality was rather sharp.

​Rhetorical Devices in action 7.3.1 page 7

​the figurative language here creates imagery for the listener/reader

the parallelism ties the ideas together/ maintain consistency and clarity.

​Letters 7.3.1 page 9

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Many writers and civil rights leaders also wrote letters to help convey their ideas about social change.

One well-known example of such a letter is Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From Birmingham Jail" — a response to a public statement of caution issued by eight white religious leaders in the South who claimed that his actions were "unwise and untimely" and called him an outsider.

King used figurative language to explain why he was in Birmingham, where he was arrested, and why it was ridiculous to call him an "outsider." He paints a picture of interconnectedness, explaining that we are all tied together in a network of mutual interests. The metaphor of the network helps the reader understand that everything we do affects another person, and that there is, therefore, no such thing as an outsider.

​Essay 7.3.1 page 10

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Another form of literary nonfiction is the essay.

One of the best-known writers of the civil rights era was James Baldwin, who wrote about the pain and struggle of African Americans as someone who experienced these things firsthand. The honesty of his essays was unusual for the time, and this honesty, combined with his calls for change, prompted people to take notice. Readers were drawn to the narrative, poetic qualities of his prose, and he quickly gained popularity.

In the excerpt from James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" below, take a look at how he uses parallelism and figurative language to help make his points.

​7.3.1 page 10

​parallelism ties feelings in each sentence together.. shows that over time, his feelings changed.

figurative language shows that ideas carried weight, were important

​Central Idea 7.3.1 page 11

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Even though literary nonfiction essays might sound like stories, they often have a specific central idea — just like speeches.

Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" uses rhetorical devices like parallelism and figurative language to make a universal comment on the way African Americans could deal with the injustices they saw around them. And he uses his own story as a model.

​Read 7.3.3

​Read James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son."

This is an essay which is a personal narrative. He deals with the death of his father, but it is also a commentary on race relations. There is a lot of historical content. His descriptions of death, violence and racism are very vivid and painful.

Think about why he wrote something so personal to him. What is his message?

​7.3.6 page 2 Text Structure

​The text is written as a personal narrative, interspersed with information about society as a whole.

The narrative thread that draws us through the story is Baldwin's relationship with his father. Take a look at how Baldwin intertwines the main narrative elements of the essay in the opening paragraph.

​7.3.6 page 3

​Throughout the essay, Baldwin continues to use a narrative structure to build on his own realizations about the world in general.

He first realizes that his father's hatred could also infect him only after he had the chance to live away from home and experience the world for himself.

​7.3.6 page 4

​Even though Baldwin is telling a story, he uses rhetorical devices to get his point across.

One rhetorical device Baldwin uses is parallelism — repeating the structure of a sentence. The other is figurative language, specifically metaphor, which allows Baldwin to add meaning to the otherwise abstract element of hatred:

I first contracted some dread, chronic disease . . . Once this disease is contracted, one can never be really carefree again, for the fever, without an instant's warning, can recur at any moment.

​7.3.6 page 7 Hatred

​Now let's take a look at how Baldwin conveys part of his central idea about hatred inside of his narrative structure

Read the following passage about when Baldwin goes to visit his father for the last time and finally sees him for who he really was.

​7.3.6 page 8

​In addition to Baldwin's central idea about the destructiveness of hate, there is another topic that keeps popping up: acceptance.

Even though Baldwin was scared of his father and disapproved of the way he conducted himself, there was a redeeming quality about him.

​7.3.8 Write & 7.3.9 Project

​In this activity, you'll create a works-cited page for your research essay, double-check your parenthetical citations, and develop an outline for the speech version of your essay.

Must have an outline.... 10 points on Rubric!

This activity closely checks the documentation. Make sure you have carefully checked your work.

​7.3.8 page 3

​Works Cited page tips:

The first one is a book. The second is an article.

Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son. Beacon Press, 2012.

​7.3.8 page 4

​7.3.8 The Speech pages 5 - 8

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Match

Match the following

• Video

• Large photo

• Flow Chart

• Pie graph

If you need to demonstrate something while providing a voice-over

If you need to illustrate a scene

If you need to show how a process works from start to finish

If you need to compare the percentage of time people spent working versus sleeping

• If you need to demonstrate something while providing a voice-over

• If you need to illustrate a scene

• If you need to show how a process works from start to finish

• If you need to compare the percentage of time people spent working versus sleeping

​Respond to ME in the CHAT:




Where can you find help putting together an MLA style Works Cited page?