Judicial+Topics+of+Rhetoric

=Jucicial Topics of Rhetoric=

Essential Question
How does a person effectively help their argument using the Judicial Topics?

Benchmarks
LA.910.4.3.2 - The student will include persuasive techniques.

LA.910.5.2.1- The student will select and use appropriate listening strategies according to the intended purpose.

LA.910.5.2.2 The Student will research and organize information for oral communication appropriate for the occasion, audience, and purpose.

LA.910.5.2.3 The student will use appropriate eye contact, body movements, voice register and oral language choices for audience engagement in formal and informal speaking situations.

Lesson
Judicial Topics are very direct, either guilty or not guilty; clear or obscure; left or right. They use basic elements of logic to prove their arguments. According to Aristotle’s Rhetoric, what is just or unjust is decided by different factors: The law (either that of the government, or that of nature), the persons affected, and the intentions of the wrongdoer. Law, by Aristotle’s standards, is either that of the government (local, state, or federal) or those of nature (such as Gravity). People affected by the wrongdoer may be a whole community of people, or just individuals within the community (i.e. rape, murder, beating). The person who committed the crime either purposefully or unknowingly did the deed. If they did it purposefully, they may be guilty, then they did the crime for one of two reasons. They either did it deliberately, and had the whole act planned, or they did it from passion. The wrongdoer is found guilty for performing the crime deliberately. Judicial topics use these ideas from Aristotle to prove their argument.

Jobs
Michael made the crime scene and put the information on the wiki.

Gunnar found the Standards and made the Essential Question.

Neville tied it into //Freakonomics// and did a good portion of deciding what we would do for the assignment.