Three Appeals Essay

Assignment:

Write an 800-1000 word essay which discusses the three appeals Martin Luther King, Jr makes in his Letter from the Birmingham Jail. What devices does the speaker use to appeal to the reader? How are the appeals created by these devices? Identifying, evaluating, and analyzing the connections between the appeals (Ethos, Logos, and Pathos) and the devices the speaker uses to create them should be the focus of the essay.

 The text of the letter can be found here: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf
 

The essay should be double-spaced and submitted by email as a word document to patgar1@gpsk12.org.

Please have your name as part of the file name (For example, BillThompsonThreeAppeals.doc).

 

Important dates:

Wednesday                 9/17   LAB time

Thursday                     9/18   LAB time

Friday                         9/19   Essay Due by 2:30PM