Monday, March 31, 2008

analyze and identify rhetoric and persuasive language.

Do Now: Can you recall a quote, speech, parable or lesson that inspired you, changed your perspective on life, or made you stop and think? Identity it and explain reasons why.

"The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it."
-Plutarch
This quote made me stop and think that life can be really short, short as a moment, so we should live our life and do something good with it instead of misusing it and do bad things to people. I like this quote because it direct and if you really think about it. Its true.


The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln - November 19, 1863

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

chief joseph's speech

Interpret the following quotes:
“The Earth is the mother of all people and all people should have equal rights upon it."
-Chief Joseph
This quote is saying that the earth is the mother of all people because earth is like the mother giving us shelter and providing us with food and everyone should have equal right to it. everyone should share earth and treat everyone with equality

Answer on your Blogs:
How is the art of rhetoric evident in Chief Joseph’s speech?
He is being very persuasive to the council member about not selling the land which they live on and how he dosent want to start a war. he just wants the indians and the white people to get along with each other and live peacefully. also because he is repeating himself on by saying he dosent want war or bloodshed.

Who is he addressing in this speech?
Mostly he is addressing the white people. he is trying to convince them that he dosent want to fight with them he just want to live peacefully in his homeland.

Who is he indicting and why?

Identify any heroic characteristics?

Why is this speech Protest Literature?
This is a protest literature because he is protesting against the

Sunday, March 2, 2008

“I Am What I Am” written by Nahida A. and Bilkis A.

I am what I am
I am American but I am proud of my origin
I am Bengali and I am proud of who I am
I am a person of mixed cultureI am a true Bengali-always and forever

I am a immigrant
And so am I
I am a city girl
I am a simple girl from the village

I like to party and have fun
I rather stay home and cook
I like to go to the movies with my friends
I prefer to spend time in my village

I am happy living in America
I want to go back to my country
My future is here in America
My life is in Bangladesh