Open up a word document. Write a paragraph for each persuasive technique in the article. You must do the following;

Identify the technique, give the example and explain how it affects the reader.

Example:

The author uses an emotive language by using the word ‘cruelly’ when referring to the managers of boxing events. This technique has the affect of evoking emotion in the audience making them feel sympathy for the author’s  point of view.

Homework: Find an an opinion article online or in a newspaper. Write out the contention in your workbook and identify at least three persuasive techniques and how they effect the reader.

Article

Act 3 Scene 5

Comprehension Questions

Answer the following questions using full sentences.  Where possible, always use a quotation.

1)    Why does Juliet try to convince Romeo that it is still not day?  How does Romeo convince her otherwise?

2)    How do we know that Juliet is wondering about when she will see Romeo again?

3)    What does the word ‘foreboding’ mean?  Juliet has a moment of foreboding.  What does she see?

4)    Juliet says ‘Proud can I never be of what I hate.’  What does Juliet mean when she says this line?  How does Lord Capulet respond?

5)    What news does Lady Capulet bring Juliet and how does Juliet react?

6)    Identify 3 different things Capulet says in response to Juliet’s refusal to marry Paris.  What do these things tell you?

7)    Who sticks up for Juliet?  What does this tell you about their relationship?

8)    Who does Juliet turn to first for support?  What reaction does she get?

9) Juliet then turns to the nurse and asks her for help in preventing the marriage to Paris.  What is the nurse’s response?  Why is this surprising?

10) What are Juliet’s plans at the end of the scene?

Write down three points in response to the following topic. Find quotes to support your three points.

“Juliet feels alone and isolated in her own family.”

Find a map of the east coast of Scotland and locate Scone.

Why is Scone famous?

When did the real Macbeth sit on the throne of Scotland? How was he dethroned? Who replaced him?

What kind of King was he?

What is regicide?

What punishment did medieval society thingk appropraite for regicide?

What role did witches play in medieval society?

What kind of punishments were appropriate for witches?

Newspaper article

You must produce a newspaper article that features the murder of King Duncan.

You need a headline

A picture of the crime scene

Write a minimum one page, single spaced, 12 point font article that reports on the event. What happened? Who are the suspects? What evidence is there?

3-2-1

Find three examples of imagery in Act 1.

Find two examples of metaphor in Act 1

Find one example of foreshadowing in Act 1.

You also need to have answered the questions Macbeth Journal questions for Act 1.

MACBETH JOURNALS

Elizabeth Broderick, sex discrimination commissioner, argues that sexual harassment is happening in many workplaces around the country and this should be stopped. She writes with an authoritative tone, in an article entitled “Sexual harassment in workplaces must stop” in The Australian on the 30^th October 2012.

Broderck uses the statistics when she writes “…in the last five years, in excess of one in five people aged over 15 have experienced sexual harassment”. Broderick uses this device to further persuade the reader workplaces are rife with such inappropriate behaviour. The reader is therefore more likely to consider her argument a sound one.

Elizabeth Broderick makes extensive use of  inclusive language. Broderick uses the words ‘we’ and ‘us’ throughout the article. “We need to send a clear message that sexual harassment ruins lives, divides teams and dmages the effectiveness of organisations.” By using the word ‘we’ she makes the read feel as if they have to take part in this act of preventing sexual harassment. It has the effect of making the reader feel included.

(Further body paragraphs here…..)

(And now the conclusion….)

Broderick uses a range of techniques to support her contention that sexual harassment must be prevented in the workplace. Perhaps the two most convincing was the use of statistics and appeal to the hip pocket. The reader is successfully positioned to agree with her, with the inappropriateness of this behaviour being made so explicit.

Your homework task for this week is to create a 3 minute speech on an issue of your choice. You must persuade the audience using a range of techniques that your viewpoint on the issue is correct. Good luck!

Click on the link below to start planning your speech.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/

Persuasive+Techniques

Hi all

Have a great holiday. Your homework over this time is to study the attached persuasive techniques and their effect on the reader. You must also find a newspaper editorial, cut it out and bring it to class. Identify the contention and any persuasive techniques it contains.

The importance of stories – Homework due Wednesday 13th March

Page 109 Remembering the fragments of stories. Why was it important for the children to remember fragments of ‘Great Expectations’. What purpose did it serve at the funeral? P.123 (bottom)

This weeks homework due on Friday 1st March.

‘White men were to blame for the mine and the blockade. A white man had given us the name of our island. White men had given me my name. By now it was also clear that white men had forgotten us.’ Discuss how the see-sawing attentions of white men affects the island, from the mine owners to Mr Watts’ teachings.