Ethos, Pathos, Logos
THE RHETORIC OF THE OP-ED PAGE:
Activity 4 – Debate project work
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Your debate project work will include the
following:
*Debate Cover Sheet
*Value Statement
*Pro/Con Chart
*Adult Questionnaire
*Student/Adult Survey (non-debaters only)
*Four Research Articles with Debate Notes
ACTIVITY 5:
SURVEYING THE TEXT
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Look at the article “A Change of Heart About
Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin. Think about the following
questions:
1. Where and when was this article published?
2. Who wrote the article? Do you know anything about
this writer? (Hint: Look at the end of the article.) How
could you find out more?
3. What is the subtitle of the article? What does that tell
you about what the article might say?
4. The article was published on the editorial page. What
does that mean?
Activity 6 – Annotations for “a
change of heart about animals”
Highlight main idea (you should have at least
one in the article). In other words, what is the
sentence in the article that tells the reader what
the article’s message is.
 Highlight or Circle THREE unknown words or
difficult words in the article in a different color
 Write the definition next to each word.
 Next ANNOTATE: In other words, after EVERY
OTHER paragraph write a two (short) sentence
summary explain the main idea of those
paragraphs in your own words or commenting on
the ideas in that paragraph. (I should see
several of these per page!)
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ACTIVITY 7: THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT
ETHOS, LOGOS, PATHOS
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I will distribute a worksheet with questions for you
to respond to. Please record your answers on a
separate sheet of paper.
Activity 8 – Annotations for “letters to the editor
in response to ‘a change of heart about animals’”
and “hooked on a myth”
Highlight main idea (you should have at least
one in the article). In other words, what is the
sentence in the article that tells the reader what
the article’s message is.
 Highlight or Circle THREE unknown words or
difficult words in the article in a different color
 Write the definition next to each word.
 Next ANNOTATE: In other words, after EVERY
OTHER paragraph write a two (short) sentence
summary explain the main idea of those
paragraphs in your own words or commenting on
the ideas in that paragraph. (I should see
several of these per page!)
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Activity 9: pre-writing packet for animal bill
of rights essay– due Friday
*you must complete this for homework
today!!!
Activity 10: in-class essay: animal bill of
rights
–
essays will be in written in class on
Friday!!!
DO ANIMALS DESERVE A
BILL OF RIGHTS?
DEBATE NOTECARD SUGGESTIONS
Only write on the front-side of your notecards
 Number your notecards
 Only use complete sentences for:
(1) Your opening hook
(2) When quoting a person directly
(3) When quoting a specific definition or a detailed,
technical fact or statistic
(4) Your closing statement
 Highlight your notecards with two different colors:
*1 color for what you say (yellow)
*1 color for what you will do or want to remember to do
i.e. make eye contact; take a dramatic pause, stomp
your fist (pink/green/blue/purple)
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