Letters from Iwo Jima

In this video, students were asked to read and analyze text from the Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. In order to have the students engage in a deeper level of thinking from this text, TJ Hanify(teacher) developed different strategies to keep their interest. First students must read the Letter from Birmingham and create notes from their findings. Students must include the main idea of the author’s purpose and any questions or concerns students might have. The next strategy…

purpose of a political letter is to try to inform and convince the audience to think about a problem that should be of public interest, however, the audience is what makes the letter powerful. The audience sets the context and message of the letter. An example is, Martin Luther King’s infamous “Letter from Birmingham jail”. This letter shows that the audience of a political letter can be much more than just the directly announced audience. Eight Alabama clergymen issued a letter to King…

agitator whose actions incite hatred and violence and as a result, urged the African American citizens of Birmingham to withdraw their support for the demonstrations and instead rely on the courts and negotiation the achieve change. Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” is not simply a response to this criticism, but it also serves to awaken the conscience of America to the injustice and marginalization suffered…

amount of time pointing out the flaws in the clergymen’s claim and balancing his own criticism, King starts the letter by letting his fellow clergymen know that he believes their letter is worthy of a response. At the end, King wraps up his argument in a hopeful tone that the letter finds the clergymen “strong in faith” and his desire to meet the clergymen under better circumstances. King further establishes his ethos when he was accused of being an outsider coming in to stir up trouble. First,…

Birmingham jail was because “injustice was here” (King). After being arrested, he wrote a response to a public statement issued by eight white religious southern leaders. The letter King wrote used imagery, diction, and metaphors to give people insight on the way that African Americans were actually treated by police officers. In his letter, King uses strong imagery to appeal to the reader’s emotions. King uses it to bring forth the parts of the protests that people don’t get to see, such as…

peaceful protest and strong pieces of writing. One example is his letter written after his imprisonment in Birmingham jail because of a coordinated march against segregation. The purpose of his letter was to respond to the clergymen that labeled the march unwise. Martin Luther King uses ethos, logos, and pathos to argue to the clergyman that the strategy of peaceful resistance against discrimination is necessary. The Letter from Birmingham Jail best uses logos and ethos to reason his actions to…

19, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an open letter to eight clergymen who questioned his involvement in non-violent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. The Letter of Birmingham Jail brilliantly appeals to both the clergymen and a broader audience. King masterfully uses strategies such as narrating, exemplifying and comparing-contrasting. For the purpose of this essay, we will focus on the literary technique of Comparing-Contrasting in King’s letter. Comparing-Contrasting…

In Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King shares with his fellow congressmen the reason why he has come to Birmingham. Mr. King gives an order to either take a stance with him or to move along and get lost. He believed that in order to stand up, he would have to break the norm that society has been dealing with for many decades which is what the American transcendentalism movement was all about. Racism in Mr. King’s attitude should have already been abolished because he sees that it is…

this is first shown at the very beginning of the “letter” as it reads “My dear fellow Clergymen.” King have been in solitary confinement for a couple of days, he could have started the a rant at the beginning, but instead he addresses them as “fellow clergymen” King is reminding the reader who he is, a…

strategies for freedom were very controversial and dangerous as he shared his views regarding the immediate abolition of slavery as opposed to a more gradual approach. Even though David Walker’s Appeal did not result in any significant acts of resistance from the oppressed people of color, his ideas did prove to be revolutionary to abolitionists during the nineteenth century. Walker uses his Appeal to emphasize…