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Special Focus: Writing Persuasively Activities 1. Students identify Reagan’s domestic and foreign policies as well as his leadership, personal life, and personality traits. 2. Students identify rhetorical strategies and appeals we have analyzed and discussed in arguments read in prior class periods. These are listed on the board. 3. In groups, students write an argument either defending or challenging the claim that Reagan was the greatest president of the modern era. They employ some of the rhetorical strategies and appeals listed on the board. Summary: Each group reads its argument to the class. Other students note rhetorical strategies and appeals employed by each group. Sample Group Response Who would have thought that a humble radio announcer from California would become one of the greatest presidents of the modern era and arguably of all time? His “Reaganomics” boosted a crippled economy and, even more importantly, a crippled American mindset. Former President Nixon had shown weakness in the face of communism by relaxing the tension of the Cold War. Reagan showed the Soviet Union that the United States of America would not submit to foreign pressures in Grenada and Nicaragua, thus boosting Americans’ confidence in their government and in their country. The strategic defense initiation would provide an impalpable sense of security that would destroy the Evil Empire, their “red death star,” and Lord “Gorbachev” Vader. His policy of intolerance towards hostile groups and threats to American security guaranteed the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union during the presidency of his own vice president, George Bush. Any president who gets re-elected by a landslide was a successful and well-liked president. Ronald Reagan won by 525 to 13 electoral votes. Thus, Ronald Reagan was a successful president. AP® English Language and Composition: 2006–2007 Workshop Materials 41
Special Focus: Writing Persuasively Rhetorical Strategies Used in Sample Response • Opening with a rhetorical question • Appeal to logos with factual evidence • Allusion (to Star Wars) • Appeal to pathos (emotionally charged language, description of “humble radio announcer”) • Parallel structure (sentence two) • Syllogistic logic (last three sentences) 42 AP® English Language and Composition: 2006–2007 Workshop Materials
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