This document provides instructions and learning objectives for a lesson on Cesar Chavez's Commonwealth Club speech. It directs students to take notes on paragraphs 16-29 of the speech and identify Chavez's central claim. The lesson also defines rhetoric and has students work with partners to determine one claim from the selected speech paragraphs. For homework, students are assigned 15-20 minutes of independent reading.

1. DO NOW
Entry Task - organizer!
• Forming Evidence-Based Claims
Paragraphs 8-15
• Take a guess about the “claim” for these
paragraphs – write it at the top

2. Lyddie
Learning Objectives
I can determine one of Chávez’s main claims
and identify the supporting evidence for it.
I can analyze the structure of Chavez’s
speech and explain how each section
contributes to his central claim.

3. Lyddie
Agents of Change
CLAIM:
The UFW has improved the lives of farmworkers.
The success of the UFW has empowered all Latinos.

4. Lyddie
Agents of Change
CLAIM:
The UFW has improved the lives of farmworkers.
The success of the UFW has empowered all Latinos.

5. Lyddie
Agents of Change
Commonwealth Club Speech
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Read along as we listen
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Paragraphs 16-29
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Take gist notes (left) as we listen
Click on me begins on
11:10

6. Lyddie
Agents of Change
César Chávez
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Paragraphs # 16-17…let’s practice the gist
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Par # 16:
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Par # 17:

7. Lyddie
Agents of Change
César Chávez
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Paragraphs # 18-19…let’s practice the gist
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Par # 18:
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Par # 19:

8. Lyddie
Agents of Change
César Chávez
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Paragraphs # 20-21…let’s practice the gist
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Par # 20:
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Par # 21:

9. Lyddie
Agents of Change
César Chávez
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Paragraphs # 22-23…let’s practice the gist
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Par # 22:
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Par # 23:

10. Lyddie
Definitions
Copy on top of the Rhetoric Toolbox sheet
rhetoric: the art of trying to persuade
someone

11. Lyddie
Agents of Change
César Chávez
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Paragraphs # 24-26…let’s practice the gist
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Par # 24:
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Par # 25:
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Par # 26:

12. Lyddie
Agents of Change
César Chávez
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Paragraphs # 27-29…let’s practice the gist
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Par # 27:
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Par # 28:
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Par # 29:

13. Lyddie
Agents of Change
Paragraphs 16-29
• SHOULDER partner
• Identify ONE CLAIM you heard in this
section of the speech

14. Lyddie
Homework
Homework
• Independent Reading Book
• 15-20 minutes reading tonight