As you settle into your seats…

1. As you settle into your seats… • Make a name tag/name tent. • Use the sheet of blank paper given and a marker from the front of the room (sample on front table). • Write your name clearly so Ms. Haseltine can see it! *Don’t destroy the tags/tents- I’ll collect them for future use* 

2. Daily Vocab • Define the following with a DICTIONARY! • Tone • Diction • Ethos • Logos • Pathos • Enthymeme *You will need to keep these words/definitions*

3. Tone: style of manner of expression in speaking or writing • Diction: choice of words • Ethos: an appeal to character, to demonstrate credibility and trustworthiness • Logos: appeal to reason by offering clear, rational ideas • Pathos: appeal to emotion • Enthymeme: unstated—but implied—point the author makes

4. Next…We will discuss for content • Get out your annotated article from last class and start thinking about the following question: • “What do you think about the costs and benefits of junior year as they relate to you personally?” • Pick a passage/line from the article to support your thinking.

5. Introduction to Rhetoric: Using the “Available Means” • Objective: Be able to define rhetoric • Take notes! • In a small group, arrange the cards labeled “audience,” “speaker” and “subject” in an order that demonstrates how you think these words are related.

6. Rhetoric: the art of persuasive and effective speaking and writing • Audience, subject, speaker are key elements

7. Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle! Interaction among subject, speaker, and audience determines the language and structure of the argument.

8. Course Goals: By the end of this course, you should be able to: • Analyze the arguments presented by others (in other words, be able to understand how another writer creates his/her argument) • Write persuasively and effectively yourself

9. Seriously Corny Rhetoric Rap • www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Dtmhk6vJw • Write down one thing learned about “rhetoric” while you watch

10. Looking at the article through a different lens… • Please take out “High School’s Worst Year” STEP 1: With your group, decide what is the “enthymeme” or the unstated point that the author is trying to make.

11. STEP 2: Who do you think the audience is?

12. STEP 3: How does the author try and convince the audience of her point of view? What writing techniques do you see? (You do not have a lot of formal names for what this author is doing yet, but do your best to describe the techniques anyway.)

13. STEP 4: Sum it up…Create a thesis statement! • By _((insert technique(s))_________, Kaufman tries to convince____________ that __(Insert your argument)_______________.

14. In Summary: • Rhetoric: the art of persuasive and effective speaking and writing • Thinking about the Rhetorical Triangle will help you to analyze arguments and create your own • We will work this year analyze the techniques others use to create their arguments (this is where annotating comes in!), and then, of course, work to create our own.