persuasive techniques and walt whitman

9 April 2013Miss Rice

Persuasive Techniques and Walt Whitman

What is one persuasive technique that you think you will use in your research paper? Give an example of how you will use

it

*Take out persuasive article HW to be checked

Warm-Up

Persuasive techniquesVocab. Unit 4Walt Whitman

Agenda

To make personal connections to vocabulary words.

To review persuasive techniques.To introduce Walt Whitman and

preview “I Hear America Singing.”

CP 10 Objectives 4/9

Highlighters

1. What did you think of the article?

2. Do you think it was persuasive?

3. What specific persuasive techniques did you see used in the article?

Bancraft Article

On a piece of loose leaf, respond to the following two questions:Which persuasive article did you like better

and why? Write and share with the class.Which article do you think was more

persuasive and why? Write and then share with the class.

You will need to use and highlight at least 3 persuasive techniques in your research paperReview warm-up from today and yesterday

Persuasive Techniques

Vocab. Unit 4Test this FridayHW due Wednesday (tomorrow)

Pages 54-57 in orange bookStar the words you already knowReview the words you know Review the words you don’t know

Affiliated

Ascertain

Attainment

Bequeath

Cogent

Converge

Disperse

Esteem

Expunge

Finite

Invulnerable

Malevolent

Nonchalant

Omniscient

Panacea

Scrupulous

Skulk

Supercilious

Uncanny

Venial

Vocab. Unit 4Draw one of the words and share

with the classHW due Wednesday

Pages 54-57 in orange book

The Early YearsLong Island9LiterateCarpenterBrooklyn11Office jobsPrinter’s assistant

Walt Whitman: 1819-1892

His Writing Career27Brooklyn EagleFiredSlaveryAbraham LincolnPoetry“Leaves of Grass”

Walt Whitman

His Writing StyleLong linesNatural speechCatalogsParallelismVocabularyRealityIrregular meterLine lengthRhythmBibleAmericanFreedomindividuality

Walt Whitman

Creating long lists for poetic effect

Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself excerptThe pure contralto sings in the organ loft,The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner,The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,The mate stands braced in the whale-boat, lance and harpoon are ready,The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,The deacons are ordained with crossed hands at the altar,The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a First-day loaf and looks at the oats and rye,The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirmed case.... [etc.]

Literary Terms: Cataloguing

Poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than meter

Some lines might have a certain meter, but no meter is maintained throughout

I shall goUp and down,In my gown.Gorgeously arrayed,Boned and stayed.And the softness of my body will be guarded from embraceBy every button, hook, and lace.For the man who should loose me is dead,Fighting with the Duke in Flanders,In a pattern called a war.Christ! What are patterns for?

Literary Terms: Free Verse

The melodic pattern just before the end of a sentence or phrase

The natural rhythm of language depending on the position of stressed and unstressed syllables

Literary Terms: Cadence

When a writer or speaker expresses ideas of equal worth with the same grammatical form"Veni, vidi, vici," (I came, I saw, I

conquered) -Julius Caesar

Literary Terms: Parallelism

The "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage

The sensory perceptions referred to in a poem, whether by literal description, allusion, simile, or metaphor

Imagery is not limited to visual imagery, but can be any of the senses that the author awakens with his words

Literary Terms: Imagery

The author's way of communicating and sharing ideas, perceptions, and feelings with readersCan be directly stated or implied

Can be briefly stated or a complicated view of life

Literary Terms: Theme

Let’s read togetherWhitman lit. terms

What effect does parallelism and repetition have on the readers?

Possible themes?What does the title mean? What does Whitman

mean by “singing?”What does the poem imply about American

workers?What is Whitman saying about the attitude of a

person’s work?Is Whitman’s view of Americans true then? Now?

“I Hear America Singing”

Compare and contrast Whitman with the transcendentalists

Whitman

Vocab. pages #54-57 due tomorrowRead “I, Too, Sing America” and

write at least a 5 sentence reflection about how this poem connects to “I Hear America Singing”

Homework