logos-persuasion through logic. Facts, statistics, reasons.
pathos-persuasion through emotion. Appealing to the audience's feelings.
ethos-persuasion through ethics. Centers on reliability/credibility of persuader.
With a partner: create a short dialogue (30 seconds) that uses one of these three techniques of persuasion. Your dialogue should follow one of these scenarios:
Child persuading parent they should have a later curfew.
Student persuading teacher they should be allowed to turn in homework late.
Employee persuading boss they deserve a raise.
Perform this dialogue for the class.
Thomas Jefferson, excerpt from The Autobiography, "The Declaration of Independence," p. 100.
Read the selection.
Outline basic three-part structure; what is Jefferson's purpose in each section?
Identify list of 27 Abuses and Usurpations. Put #1-5 in your own words.
Many of the typical values of Americans are displayed in their advertising.
Find a print ad in a magazine.
Using your list of values, determine the primary value evident in the ad.The ad must include a call to action to do or buy something.
Label your paper with the primary value you’ve identified.Include the definition for that value from your list. Also label your paper with the magazine title, date, and page number.
Write a rationale for how your ad exhibits the value you identify.Consider the following questions as you write the rationale:
§Who is the audience for the ad?
§What words were chosen?
§How are the products or people arranged visually?
§What is the “setting” of the ad?
This rationale should be at least one well-written paragraph (6-8 sentences).
Inversion-changing word order to fit rhyme or metric structure.
1. Find three examples of inversion and uninvert them. Examples:
line 1--"In silent night when rest I took" becomes "when I took rest"
line 2--"For sorrow near I did not look" becomes "I did not look near for sorrow"
2. Some readers have felt that by so lovingly enumerating her losses (ll. 21-36), Bradstreet is crying out to heaven in a way that unconsciously reveals more attachment to her earthly possessions than she would admit to. On the other hand, what Bradstreet does not reveal in this poem is significant: Hundreds of books, as well as her papers adn all her unpublished poems, were also lost in the fire. Using specific examples from the text, explain why you are or are not convinced that the speaker means what she says. (Hand in with questions from p. 6)
Write in one paragraph (at least five sentences) what you believe is important for people to know about you. Include personality, hobbies, interests, etc. (Hand in Thursday)
Finish Ad assignment from yesterday. Present to class.
