Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda

1. Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda Using Ethos, Logos, and Pathos to Analyze WWII Posters

2. In your notebook on pg _____, draw a KWL chart. (Three columns. What you KNOW, what you WANT to learn, what you LEARNED.) Fill in the K and W columns listing everything you know about this poster and things you want to know.

3. Analyzing a Visual Message • With your partner, go to the analyzing a visual message interactive here. • Complete the interactive. • Make sure you BOTH put your FULL names in the “name” box. • Answer in complete sentences. The final printout doesn’t include the questions, so your answers have to make sense on their own. • Use as much detail from the poster as you can. Cite your evidence. • Save your answers and then create a copy of that file and drag and drop the file from your student drive into the drop box for your class period.

4. Now go back to your KWL chart in your notebook and add things you observed about the poster during your analysis. Fill in the L column.

5. Use theArgument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Chart on the next slide to do the following. • Under your KWL chart in your notebook, fill in the descriptions from the Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Chart that you think fit this poster. • For example, if you think the goal of the poster fits the argument description, then write “discover the ‘truth’” under the KWL chart.

6. Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda?

7. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos • Set up the next 3-5 pages in your notebook for Cornell notes. • Review the links to the right and take VERYGOOD Cornell notes on Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. You’re going to need that information. • (Use your earbuds/headphones for the videos please.) • The links will actually take you to a my.ccsd.net resource page. Select the links on that page for the resource you wish to view. (You may need to click “view all” under the resources tab.) • Ethos, Logos, Pathos Definitions • OWL at Purdue – Ethos • OWL at Purdue – Pathos • OWL at Purdue – Logos • Art of Rhetoric • Persuasion as art • OWL at Purdue – Visual Rhetoric

8. Time to Practice • With your partner, watch some of the ads through the link on the right. • On the next available page in your notebook, take notes on each ad (do at least 6 of them). • Decide if the ads are using ethos, pathos, logos, or a combination. • Decide if the ads are trying to argue, persuade, or are they propaganda. • Make note of your decisions for each ad. • Ethos, Pathos, Logos in Ads Practice

9. Now for the Real Thing • With your partner, use the links on the right to select a WWII poster. • Use the chart and your notes on ethos, pathos, and logos to help you decide what techniques are being used in the poster. You may find it helpful to ask yourselves these questions. • Complete the interactive. (Be sure to refer to the rubric on the next slide to make sure you’ve covered everything.) Save your answers and then create a copy of that file and drag and drop the file from your student drive into the drop box for your class period. • WWII Posters • Poster on the Home Front • Poster Art from WWII • Northwestern WWII Poster Collection • University of North Texas WWII Poster Collection • Click here for the interactive

10. Poster Analysis Rubric

11. Do you really know your ethos, pathos, and logos? • Quiz yourself here • Start out with the flashcards. Then use the scatter game to practice. If you think you’ve really got it, then try the race game.