Aim: How is rhetoric illustrated in the preface of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?

Do Now: From your research: draw a KWL chart in your notebooks and identify 1 aspect of Jacobs’ life.

Recap Mini Lesson of what is Rhetoric:Think about the Presidential Debate…what rhetoric do you know of exists in the last debate?

Whole Class: Teacher will read aloud the preface of Incidents.

Comprehension check:Who is being addressed in the preface?What was purposely done by the author?

Vocabulary:What is a preface?

What is a pseudonym?

Literary Analysis:What are the various settings?

Critical Thinking:Why do you think she wants to “arouse women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two millions of women at the south…most of them far worse” (xiv).

Cooperative Learning:Identify all the use of Rhetoric and Explain why this is rhetoric. Please use quotations/Homework:

Create Blog Pages and call it example: W. Smith English 5 and include Ms. Hyde somewhere on your page.Please have your work listed in chronological order by date.Then copy the lessons Aim, Do Now, Questions, and Homework on your Blogs. You can just copy and paste my lessons on your Blog page. Then answer them on a daily basis when we are using Blog pages.

Our next test is this Friday or Monday.

Vocabulary:
Preface
Pseudonym
Competent
Diligent
Leisure
Compelled
Motives
Presumptuous
Abominations

Read chapters 1-5 for Thursday’s class