DO NOW
Identify whether each statement is True or False
1. You can include quotes in a summary.
2. You don't need to include all the author's
main ideas in a summary because it is the
condensed version of the author's essay.
3. When paraphrasing you want to make sure
you stay about the same length as what you
are paraphrasing.
4. When paraphrasing you can use a word here
and there from the author.
Objectives
- RI.10.6 Determine an author’s point of view or
purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is
particularly effective, analyzing how style and
content contribute to the power, persuasiveness
or beauty of the text.
- RL.10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a
text and analyze in detail its development over
the course of the text, including how it emerges
and is shaped and refined by specific details;
provide an objective summary of the text.
Guiding Question
Rhetoric is argumentation, which can be
used by anyone from nuns to Nazis. How
does one distinguish between what’s benign
and what’s harmful?
Rhetoric
Is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing
Has the function not to persuade but to see the
available means of persuasion in each case -- Aristotle
Is the understanding of the basic division between
what is communication and how it is communicated
Rhetoric
In academia, rhetoric is NOT sounding
pretentious
insincere
In academia, rhetoric means that you
understand the means and modes of
persuasion within your own discipline.
Pathos
 Appeals to the emotions and feelings of
the audience
 Arouses feelings of pity, compassionate
sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow
 Is the ability to evoke compassion in an
audience
Logos
 Appeals to logic, reasoning, and evidence
 Is the structure or organization of a writing
sample or style
 Implies numbers, polls, and other mathematical
or scientific data
 Makes the assumption that the audience and the
writer hold a foundation of shared beliefs
Ethos
 Appeals based on the trustworthiness of the
speaker or writer
 Establishes credibility through the character or
values peculiar to a specific person, culture, or
movement
 Is a component of argument that establishes a
person’s expertise or knowledge by what that
person says and not by what people know about
that person – Aristotle
Four Elements of Rhetoric
Rhetoric
It’s communication.
 Pathos
It’s the audience.
 Logos
It’s the writing.
 Ethos
It’s the writer.
Rhetorical Triangle
A psychological point about
rhetoric and suggestion...
It’s a fact that even fleeting impressions may have
measurable influence on behavior.
The operation of such influences may occur below the
threshold of consciousness.
The positive and negative impressions made by use of
rhetorical devices, while they may sometimes seem trivial, can
have powerful and long-lasting effects.
Critical thinking addresses influence of rhetoric in two ways:
(1) helps identify attempts at non-argumentative persuasion
(2) helps check “spontaneous” beliefs and impulses
DO NOW
Answer each of the following.
1. What does a summary include?
2. What does a paraphrase include?
3. Of the three: summary, paraphrase and
quotation, which ones need a parenthetical
citation?
Objectives
- SL.10.1. Initiate and participate effectively in a
range of collaborative discussions with diverse
partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues,
building on others’ ideas and expressing their
own clearly and persuasively.
- RI.10.6 Determine an author’s point of view or
purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is
particularly effective, analyzing how style and
content contribute to the power, persuasiveness
or beauty of the text.
Guiding Question
Rhetoric is the ancient art of persuasion. As
it’s applied in today’s society, is it still art
or is it all manipulation?
Pop Quiz
Take out a blank sheet of paper for a
super-quick pop quiz on the assigned
reading.
Number your paper #1-5 for True/False
questions which will require you to write
the word.
Quick Review
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What is rhetoric?
What is Pathos?
Logos?
Ethos?
Let’s watch a video followed by some text
examples to reinforce our understanding.
Jigsaw Assignment
As we break off into our color groups, each will
receive an appeal (Ethos, Logos, or Pathos) with
which to complete the following:
1. Identify each use of your assigned appeal in
the passage and explain your reasoning.
2. Research quotes about your assigned appeal
(*Ethos, Logos, or Pathos) and have each
member memorize one quote (no duplicates).
*If you receive Ethos, find quotes on rhetoric instead.