The Problem We All Live With Norman Rockwell

“The Problem We All Live With” –Norman Rockwell

AP Language and Composition “It’s a Troubling Tuesday!” February 26, 2013 Mr. Houghteling

• Visual Literacy • Allusion research and citations. • Anticipation Guide— Discussion Agenda

“The Problem We All Live With” • For the next slide, analyze the picture using the same techniques you would an written text. • SPEAKER / AUDIENCE/ SUBJECT • ETHOS / PATHOS / LOGOS • CONTEXT / PURPOSE

“The Problem We All Live With” –Norman Rockwell

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Anticipation Guide 1. The government is the creation of the people. It is responsible to the people, and the people are responsible for it. 2. White people must have brainwashed themselves to believe what they believed. 3. Children—not yet aware that it is dangerous to look too deeply at anything —look at everything, look at each other and draw their own conclusions.

Anticipation Guide 4. Every street boy understands that this structure (churches, government, politics, i. e. society) is operated for someone else’s benefit. 5. The things that happen in the ghetto are criminal because of the way the system is set up to fail them. 6. The educational system in the United States is set up for black kids to fail. 7. Blacks in the American educational system are going to become “schizophrenic. ”

Anticipation Guide 8. If one thinks of oneself as an educated person, then one must accept the responsibility to change or question society. 9. The paradox of education is that precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society. 10. A parent’s duty is to civilize his/her children.

Anticipation Guide 11. The United States is not a Christian nation, because Christians wouldn’t act like that. 12. There are very few standards in this country which are worth a man’s respect. 13. Popular culture as seen in films and comic books is created by “very ill people. ” 14. If America doesn’t use “that energy” (the energy of young African Americans), then that energy will destroy America.

HOMEWORK • Complete your research for your allusion chart.

HOMEWORK • If you were a paid speaker giving a speech to public school teachers, what would you say? – List three points you would like to prove. – Discuss how you would establish your ethos. – Determine which rhetorical appeal you would appeal to most—ethos, logos, pathos—and discuss why you chose this.