Ethos, Pathos, Logos

I apologize for having to cut DEAR time short today, but as you saw, we had a lot to get through today. The main idea for today--ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS.

ETHOS applies to your credibility, your trustworthiness, your reputation.

PATHOS applies to your emotions, your feelings about something, your inspiration to do something.

LOGOS applies to logic, facts, evidence, research.

All of these elements compile what is known as RHETORIC--the way you use language (words) to accomplish something. It's the way you persuade someone or something for a particular purpose.

I know these are big fancy words, but we need to start using them in order to build your higher-order thinking skills. We'll keep building toward this.

After understanding these terms, we went through Chapter 20 and highlighted which sections were which. As you saw, Atticus is an amazing public speaker. In his final speech, he was able to hit on all of these terms more than once in a very well-thought out convincing manner. He's someone to idolize for that.

In watching some of the viedos, I was impressed with some of the creativity that went into it as well as the effort that some of you put in. There were obvious standouts. For others, you could have done better.

In saying so, I am incredibly disappointed with how many of you DID NOT do the homework. Mr. Hannah and I do our best to create lessons that are engaging and worthwhile, so it's extremely offensive when so many of you don't do the little supportive homework we give you. Many of you cannot afford to keep skipping homework assignments. For some of you, that's what caused you to fail last term.

Be proactive and take your learning into your own hands.

DEETS:
In-class:
--DEAR
--Ethos, Pathos, Logos Powerpoint
--Chapter 20 Annotation and highlighting of EPL

HW:
--Bring in an example of Ethos, Pathos, Logos (print)
--Do the Reading Questions of Chapter 20

DO YOUR HOMEWORK! I will be checking to see that you did it tomorrow.