Week One In Review

Preview: Week Two Monday MLK Jr. Day TuesdayInauguration Wednesday Friday

Turn in Homework 1A What is social controversy?

Week One in Review Intros, Syllabus, and Branford Marsalis I Have A Dream, ME Dyson, What is Rhetoric Preparing for an Inauguration All of the Above will Prepare You For Homework/Midterm

Marsalis Based on your understanding of rhetoric,

how does Branford Marsalis’ clip function as a rhetorical artifact or not?

We jump into rhetoric via key terms. Rhetoric is "the faculty of discovering in any

particular case all of the available means of persuasion" (Aristotle). Process of Discovery or Invention/Persuasion. Deliberative Forensic Epideictic Rhetor Polysemic

We begin to explore “What is Rhetoric” by example. Branford Marsalis Martin Luther King, Jr. Michael Eric Dyson Barack H. Obama David A. Frank Mark L. McPhail Al Sharpton

Michael Eric Dyson “I May Not Get There With You” Aim of the book:  Biocriticism  An attempt “to rescue King’s memory from the

image of romantic dreamer that obscures his embrace of challenging ideas” (p. 4).

Aim of first chapter: From Color Blindness to Black Compensation:  To “combat the conservative misappropriation of

King’s words” (p. 14)

 How? By exploring the importance of and problems

posed by the “I Have A Dream” speech

Dyson Follow Up Summarize specific and key arguments of

piece. Cite aspects of his style you may incorporate. Stories, use of other speeches, “poster

boy”(p.27)

Back up key arguments. Ex. Conservatives coopted King’s Legacy Pretend to embrace a revolution they opposed Used speech to fight affirmative action

I Have A Dream Speech Identify which aspects of IHAD are deliberative or epideictic. Back up. How does the speech function as a rhetorical hybrid? Is this speech radical or conservative? Back up your belief. Choose 2-3 metaphors and articulate how they function in the speech.

Frank and McPhail Two scholars write about Obama’s 2004

Address to the Democrat Convention Frank-Obama succeeds, offers a rhetoric of consilience. Difference is integrated to transform division McPhail-Obama offers little hope by ignoring and obscuring racial realities. Both agree “through words we can alter reality.” Obama’s speech “reveals a tension between dream realized and dream deferred.”