Agenda:
1. Take a copy of the "Angry Email," written by Mr. Bodensteiner
2. Read the email out loud to each other. Read a paragraph each.
3. Answer the questions on the "Angry Email" sheet
New rhetorical term:
Irony: A contrast between what is expected to happen, and what actually happens.
examples of irony: An olympic swimmer who drowns in his bathtub.
A serial killer who has written books on public safety.
(From Ha Jin's "Saboteur")
A man with acute hepatitis is wrongfully accused and arrested for sabotage. The entire time he's in jail, he constantly speaks of his innocence. He's forced to sign a confession, and is finally released. Upon his release, anger and bitterness consumes him, and he orders food from several different places, only eating several bites of each item. Within a month, over eight hundred people contract acute hepatitis. Six died of the disease, including two children. The irony: He becomes a saboteur, the very thing he so passionately denied, and also harms innocent people (just like him in the beginning of the story) in the process.
HW: Read Chapter 3. Think about the ways that Douglass uses irony to express how slavery makes people do irrational things (irrational=unreasonable). In your notebook, jot down an example of irony that you've found in the chapter and how Douglass uses logos to argue against the institution of slavery.
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