So today, we just worked on writing the Closing Arguments speech. Remember – I took the “pre-writing chart” off as a grade – it seems like that just complicated the assignment rather than helped you.

Questions that I’ve Answered Today

• When you are doing this, remember that you are writing a speech to the jury.
• You only have to choose ONE situation – you don’t to prove Iago’s guilt AND Othello’s innocence
• There is no word count – I am going to grade this on EFFECTIVENESS – did you persuade me? Did you use ethos? Did you use pathos? Did you use logos?
• Look at the examples that I have found for you. Some are from movies, and some are from real life trials.
• Don’t make this harder than it really is – that’s why I took away the pre-writing worksheet. It was too much.

We won’t have anymore class time to work on this, but I have changed the due date to Wednesday, May 7th. That’s Malik’s birthday. I *am* going to put the zeros in on Monday after the gradecheck to remind you to get that work turned in.

Have a great weekend!