For the first part of today's class, we put our knowledge of rhetorical appeals to use by writing arguments and identifying which appeals other people used in their arguments. For this activity, everyone wrote an argument on a subject of their choosing. In this argument they used two appeals and chose a specific approach to use for each appeal.
I then read these to the class and everyone (except for the author) discussed what appeals and which approach within those appeals were being used. If the class was able to accurately identify the appeal, the author got candy. If they did not, they won the consolation prize which was a red paper clip.
With the remaining time in class, everyone finished their formal analysis revisions for ethos, logos, and rhetorical devices. I will be assessing this work this weekend, With any remaining time, people went back to the American Rhetoric site and found a speech which they could analyze for its use of pathos.
Homework:
Find and read a speech on the American Rhetoric site (that is 1,500 words or more) that you can use to analyze pathos.
