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Letters of John and Abigail Adams

With Your Group Compare the Vocabularies

of John and Abigail.

Student #2 Write Down 3 Words to Describe Abigail's Vocabulary.

Student #4 Write Down 3 Words to

Describe John's Vocabulary.

I will use rhetorical analysis to identify the writers, authors, audience, message, tone, mode, and setting in a historical text.

I will determine the message Abigail Adam is delivering to her husband.

I will determine the message John Adams provides in response to his wife, Abigail

I will identify ethos, pathos, and logos in the letters of John and Abigail Adams.

I will analyze the arguments Abigail has to improve the treatment of women in the founding of the United States.

I will analyze differences in syntax and vocabulary between two writers.

A. Analyze a text in regards to rhetorical language (Syntax, diction, figurative language, tone)

B. Analyze a text in regards to author's meaning and purpose

C. Analyze a text in regards to main idea, theme, and tone

On Your White Board:

Person #1 - Write Writers & Speakers

Person #2 - Write Audience

Person #3 - Write Mode

Person #4 - Write Setting

With your group

identify writers,

speakers, audience,

mode, and setting.

Take Out a Sheet of Paper.

Finding the Message

Each group will be given their role cards and dry erase boards.

With Your Group Discuss

Where You Chunked Your

Reading.

CHUNKing

Write down the words writers, speakers, mode, and setting.

Then write LEVEL 2 Next to it.

  • Share Concern
  • Provide Details About Boston
  • Share Hope for the Nation

Request that Women are

Given Better Rights and

Protections in the Forming

of America.

Draw a Line Under the Level 2s

With Your Group Determine the

Main Message of Abigail's Letter.

Person #1 Write Down Your Group's Answer.

#2s and #4s Please gather your things and move to the next table.

Please write Down the Following Level 3 Standards You will

Be Working on Today.

Then Label Each of the

Sections You Have Chunked.

Women in 1776*

Ethos

Ethics & Support

Messages of John Adams

Now Discuss John Adams' Message Back to Abigail.

Person #4 Write Down the Message.

Person #2 Will Share Out with the Class.

Were the property of their husband.

They could not own property.

They could not attend to their own legal affairs.

They were not provided education. *

They were to have children, tend house,

and complete

domestic duties.

Pathos

Emotions

How John dismiss Abigail's requests?

In what ways does he mock the seriousness

of her requests?

Are John's arguments about women being

secretly in charge and well treated logical?

Do you think John would use this type of communication style with his fellow politicans?

Explain Where He Is

Discuss the Business of War

Discuss the Ethical Dilemma of the Wealthy

Tease/Dismiss His Wife's Request to "Remember the Ladies"

Reaffirm Mission of the Revolution

Discuss the difference of tone between Abigail and John's Letters in General.

Please label the tone of your various chunks.

Now Discuss Their Tone About Women.

Logic & Facts

Logos

Very few jobs.

Look at an additional quotation from Abigail. Determine how serious she was about the rights of women.

Take this information and determine Abigail's tone about rights of women in the letter you read for today.

Is her tone at this point of the letter more serious than the rest of her writing? Or does it remain somewhat playful?

Religious and pure.

Laws against animal abuse before women.

No rights to children.

Your

Turn

Read: Banneker's

Letter to Jefferson

For

Friday

Take out a sheet of paper and write a

short reflection highlighting where you

felt you were understanding the day's concepts at the beginning of class and where you feel you ended up.

Feel free to highlight things you learned and things you are still confused about.

Pay attention to the same elements we looked at today.

Chunking, message, mode, setting, ethos, pathos, logos, tone, etc.

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