Module #2, "Three Ways to Persuade"

Good Morning!

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

*Module #2 -- Please have your Writer's Journal out. Yesterday we started reading "Three Ways to Persuade."  I asked you to respond in your journal to the questions that follow each part. We will finish the last part today.

Exploring the Concept of Persuasion:  Aristotle says that the art of rhetoric is the art of finding the available means of persuasion."  
*What does it mean to persuade someone? 
*Does persuasion give belief without knowledge or that which gives knowledge?  
*What is the difference between "knowledge" and "belief"?  
*Is "proving" different from "persuading"? 
* Does proving lead to  knowledge while persuading leads to belief?

HOMEWORK:  1. Article of the Week #7  2. Independent reading