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.
Know: What: Learn:
She escaped How did she escape? She ran away.
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?
The author is addressing the readers and the women of the North.
What was purposely done by the author?
The author purposely withheld the names of the people who are interacting in the book.
Vocabulary:
What is a preface?
the introductory remarks of an author or speaker.
What is a pseudonym?
fictitious name
Literary Analysis:
What are the various settings?
Philadelphia, North, and the Slave State
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).
She wants the women of the North to realize that how the women of the South are and how the slaves are treated.
Cooperative Learning:
Identify all the use of Rhetoric and Explain why this is rhetoric. Please use quotations.
"May the blessing of God rest on this imperfect effort in behalf of my persecuted people" page xviii. This a rhetoric because she was persuading the South by using God's will and the people at the South are really religious.
Homework:
Vocabulary:
Preface- introductory comments.
Pseudonym- fictitious name
Competent- possessing sufficient ability; capable.
Diligent- attentive and busy.
Leisure- a time when one can relax.
Compelled- cause through necessity.
Motives- a thing by reason of something else to happens.
Presumptuous- too bold or forward.
Abominations- hate
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