Today we took our analysis skills gained from analyzing famous speeches for their use of appeals and rhetorical devices and began applying them to analyzing modern talks and speeches. We will be doing this by having people look at TED talks of their choosing and analyzing how the speakers make use of ethos, pathos, logos, and rhetorical devices.
In class, I handed out a description of this process and an outline of the final essay. We reviewed this process and the outline for the essay in class so that people could have it in mind. I then handed out note sheets for the TED talks and people had the remaining time in the period to browse talks, find a talk they liked, and begin taking notes. For class tomorrow everyone should have finished taking notes on their talk.
Handouts:
TED Talk Analysis assignment
TED Talk Notesheet
Homework:
Finish taking notes on your selected TED Talk.
