Vocab:
1st 3 words
1st 3 words
A person who fights for change
What is an activist?
What is vanquish?
An emotional appeal is also know by this Greek word.
What is pathos?
Chavez mentions MLK in his speech several times in an example of this author's choice.
What is repetition?
This four letter word describes the author's attitude.
What is tone?
Sometimes shortened to "rad" this vocab word means extremely different from average.
What is radical?
The 9th grader complained when he had to sit next to the 7th grader after he had PE. He told the teacher he had a _______.
What is stench?
"The childhood cancer rate is 800% higher than the national average," is NOT an appeal to ______.
What is ethos?
Barrowing another person's words without changing them is known as ______ _____.
What is a direct quotation?
This six letter word is the sentence (typically after an attention getter) that sums up what the author is arguing for.
What is a thesis?
The radical activist was ________ for better school lunch by starting a food fight.
What is advocating?
Mrs. Layton has to grade 14 papers a day so she doesn't get behind. This is an example of a _______.
What is a quota?
What is a disciple?
This author's choice called _______ _______ or __________ uses repetition to create a rhythm to the speech and emphasize key ideas.
What is parallel structure or parallelism?
Which of our speakers--MLK, RFK, or Chavez--lived the longest?
Who is Cesar Chavez?
Patty wants to make her school a better place so she decides to start a volunteer club. What is Patty an example of?
What is an activist?
There was a _______ coming from the FCS room at the end of class because the students didn't pay attention to the quota for how long to set the timer for.
What is stench?
When it comes to equality, which speaker has the most ethos: Chavez, RFK, MLK?
Who is MLK?
Fill in the blanks using parallel structure:
You _________ uneducate the person who has learned to ________. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. And you cannot oppress the people who are ___ afraid anymore.
1. cannot
2. read
3. not
What is persuasive?
Mr. Jones canceled the 9th grade dance due to all the students failing a math test. Students were saying his actions were _________.
What is radical?
Cesar Chavez set a _______ for how much money they needed to raise in support of the United Farm Workers.
What is quota?
Chavez appeals to pathos through discussing these three negative things happening to children from pesticide use.
What are DNA mutation, birth defects, and cancer?
In an example of this author's choice, Chavez points out how in one of the wealthiest places---Orange County, CA---children are suffering from preventable diseases.
What is irony?
Cesar Chavez's bust is in the oval office; what two other civil rights activists have busts in there as well?
Who are Rosa Parks and MLK?