Module #2 -- The Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos

 Good Morning! I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!

Please read your independent reading book until we are ready to begin.  

*Module #2 -- Please have your Writer's Journal out.   Start on a new page and write at the head of this new page: Module 2: "The Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page: Ethos , Logos, and Pathos."

If we are to learn to participate in a democratic society by forming and supporting our own opinions - we need to be able to evaluate the opinions of others, Op-Ed resources then are an essential resource.

We will spend time reading and responding to a variety of articles that will ask us to do some of the following activities:

* Analyze how ideas, events, and/or narrative elements interact and develop through out a text

* Analyze the writers use of rhetorical devices and strategies

* Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text 

* Contribute to an ongoing conversation in ways that are appropriate to the academic context

* Write reading based arguments using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence

Activity 1:   Read the title of "Three Ways to Persuade" by John R. 
                   Edlund.  What do the three terms "ethos," "logos," and 
                   "pathos" mean? Respond in your Writer's Journal.  
                   Now read the article and respond to the questions
                   that follow each part.  (We will stop after each part
                   and discuss your responses).

Homework:  Independent reading and Article of the Week #7