Before writing your response to the prompt below, you might participate in a collaborative conversation to gather ideas. During this conversation, practice the skill of building consensus. Consensus means “general agreement.” During your conversation, you and your peers may disagree. In such cases, explore one another’s ideas and opinions and provide evidence and reasoning in support of each claim. The group should listen fairly to all positions and try to come to a general agreement. After your conversation, take note of any disagreements and explain how the group built consensus. RHETORICAL ANALYSIS: One reason that “Letter from Birmingham Jail” remains one of the best-known texts of the civil rights era is because of the powerful rhetoric that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. uses to advocate for nonviolent resistance to racism. Write a response in which you analyze how King uses characteristics of argumentative texts, such as rhetorical appeals and a convincing conclusion, to communicate his argument. Write a response of at least 300 words. Support your writing with evidence from the text.