These are some of my favorites. Let's dig into the rhetorical situation of the scenes.
Wall Street Here Gordon is attempting to persuade stock holders to sell him their shares so that he can liquidate for an enormour personal profit.
Malice- Alec Baldwin's character speaking at a preliminary hearing to detrmine if he was at fault for a botched surgery which resulted in the death of an infant. This movie has plenty of twists but this arrogant front in this scene is intentional to have a negative response to him.
For Tuesday- Let's make a wordle (word cloud) of political speech.
A) Link to Top 100 Speeches from American Rhetoric
or History Place or Time or This or That
B) Copy the text...no need to read it for this exercise.
C) Click here on Wordle or try Tagxedo .
D) Paste the text, create the word cloud, and print. Color is not necessary. Prior to printing, feel free to prune away the filler words by right clicking on the word and switching the maximum word by clicking on layout in tool bar in wordle.
Photobombs- Through political photography, find examples of how the candidate is targeting specific political themes (5) (job creation, education, security, etc). You must also comment upon the visual strategies that help persuade for the candidate (camera angle, lighting, positioning, obvious "photoshopping".
Once you find the obvious political theme and target, hit the "print screen" button above the / on the number pad. Now you can right click paste the image into a Powerpoint. Insert a text box to briefly describe how the image was constructed to attract a particular voter.
2012 Republican Candidates
Click on the cadidate to find their official home page on the right margin of the page.
For Tuesday- 2. Persuaders -Remember that the basic qualities of product advertising are at play with politics. The difference is that you a spending a vote rather than money. The candidates are products so let's see how they sell themselves. Just as you found evidence yesterday of appeals towards a specific target voter, let's dig deeper to find how the methods of persuasion are layered in the official web sites of the candidates. Find the evidence of the following:
A)3 "Basic Appeals"
B) 3 VALS techniques
C) 3 Example how the candidates attempting to build community around themselves (3)
After you paste your evidence, draw an arrow on the photo and provide a brief explanation of how the technique is used by the candidate for a particular effect. I will be most impressed by successful identification of the DRAB! Save the file in the Class Group Projects>AP Language Turnbaugh>Photobomb Class#.
