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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

09.09 - Logos (Day Two)

At the beginning of class today we reviewed metaphor, allusion, allegory, parallelism, and anaphora. Next, we looked for these in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

Everyone then handed in the ethos reading response questions and annotations of Dr. King's speech identifying ethos and rhetorical devices within the speech.

Next, we began looking at our next argument which we will be analyzing for its use of logos. To prepare for this argument from the book "Freakonomics," we looked at some short videos that will introduce us to the argument being made (see below).






Next, everyone had time in class to respond to the first reading question and then re-read the Freakonomics argument underlining moments where logos was used and indicating which sort of logos was being used (see logos handout).

We then took time in class to review people's answers. For homework, everyone should finish these annotations and then respond to questions 1, 2, and 3 in the reading questions.

Handouts:
Freakonomics' Argument (Logos)
Freakonomics reading response questions (logos set)
Logos handout

Homework:

Respond to questions 1-3 of the reading questions.