Sheryl Sandberg at Harvard

November 8, 2019

Standards

RI.9-10.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.

Objective

I can determine an author's purpose and analyze how they use rhetoric.

Starter

Free Write Friday

Vocabulary: 

Word: Purpose

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.

Your Definition: 

Activity:What is the purpose of Jim Carrey's speech?

Activity 

1.  Jim Carrey Discussion Questions 

What is the speaker’s goal? Is it to educate, to motivate, to persuade, or to entertain?

What is the primary message being delivered?

Why is this person delivering this speech? Are they the right person?

Was the objective achieved?

2.  Sheryl Sandberg Harvard Commencement Speech 

Transcript

3.  Speech Structure Questions

You will be in three groups.

Each group will be responsible for a set of questions in the doc linked above.

Focus on that part while listening to the speech.

You will share your ideas with the class.

Closure

Did you think her speech appealed more to ethos, pathos, or logos and why?