1. Create a PowerPoint presentation for your group’s prompt.
2. Everyone must contribute
3. All group prompts require quotes from sources to be show in the PowerPoint and then somehow explained. See the prompts below.
4. You need at least 1 graphic or picture
5. Must have title slide with group members’ names.
6. The slides must be easy to read (good use of colors, bits of information on several slides rather than all info on one slide, etc.) For more tips, click here.
7. Submitted through the upload form on the Website. In the “Message” field type in “group assignment,” period, and group number.
8. You will teach the class about your prompt, using your PowerPoint.

Group 1
Find and explain an example of logos, ethos, and pathos from Letter from Birmingham Jail and explain it. Click here if you do not remember what these are. Make sure your audience, the class, know what they mean.

Group 2
Find and explain an example of logos, ethos, and pathos from the Declaration of Independence and/or the “Speech in the Virginia Convention.” Click here if you do not remember what these are. Make sure your audience, the class, know what they mean.

Group 3
State the audience, purpose, and prompt for each of the readings. Explain how, with an example, each is written in a way appropriate to its audience (tone, language, reasoning, etc.). RAPP Info

Group 4
Find an example of the for techniques for emphasis that we studied (remember the cheeseburger?) and explain their use using “Speech in the Virginia Convention”.  Make sure your audience understands each technique. Visit the rhetorical emphasis post for more info.

Group 5
Choose an important quote form each reading, show it, translate it, and explain why it is important (what does it contribute to the author’s argument?).

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Here is Dr. King’s note regarding the text of the letter:

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray. the Reverend Edward V. Ramage and the Reverend Earl Stallings) was composed under somewhat constricting circumstance. Begun on the margins of the newspaper in which the statement appeared while I was in jail, the letter was continued on scraps of writing paper supplied by a friendly Negro trusty, and concluded on a pad my attorneys were eventually permitted to leave me. Although the text remains in substance unaltered, I have indulged in the author’s prerogative of polishing it for publication.

In response to recent violence, they stated:

• Demonstrations led by “outsiders” are “unwise and untimely”
• Negotiation is the best way to solve racial injustice
• Demonstrations “incite hatred and violence”
• The police should be commended for the calm manner in which they have handled everything.

Here is short video with some background.

Dr. King uses expertly uses logos, ethos and pathos in his response as well as a variety of rhetorical techniques, including the use of aphorisms.

Here is the portion of his letter that we read in class: Letter from Birmingham Jail (3 hits)

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” Questions
Answer the following on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Why will Dr. King respond to the clergymen?
2. There are two aphorisms in the 3^rd paragraph.  List and explain the meaning of one.
3. How are the steps in a nonviolent campaign similar to the Declaration of Independence?
4. Give an example of a failed negotiation.
5. What is the purpose of “direct-action?”
6. According to Dr. King, what is the difference between a just law and an unjust law?
7. Does Dr. King support evading or defying the law? Explain his reasoning.
8. Dr. King counters the claim “that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence.”  What type argument does King demonstrate in his counter?
9. In your own words, describe who Dr. King describes as real heroes. What type of argument is he demonstrating?
10. In one sentence, state what you think is the main message of Dr. King’s letter.

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