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In this activity, students will create and perform a persuasive skit using Pathos, Logos, and Ethos. They will analyze and embed these strategies into their writing, aiming to convince the class to do or believe something.

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  1. Do Now Correct the following: i havent never been to a professional football game i wont eat spinach and beets for dinner shouted maurice

  2. Objective Today I Will: Use Pathos, Logos, and Ethos to create and perform a persuasive skit. So that I can: embed these rhetorical strategies into my writing and analyze them in our reading. I’ll know I’ve got it when:My skit convinces the class to do or believe something using Pathos, Logos, and Ethos

  3. What is Logos, Pathos, Ethos?

  4. Let’s Practice! Identify: Pathos, Logos, Ethos

  5. What about in this one?

  6. SKIT In a small group, discuss the strategies your friends use when they are trying to borrow a car, go to a concert, buy new clothes, or achieve some other desired result. Pick a situation, and write a short skit showing those persuasive strategies in action. Each skit should employ logical, emotional, and ethical persuasion. Rehearse and perform your skit for the class. After you have completed the option assigned, discuss the following questions: 1. Do people use Aristotle’s concepts of ethos, logos, and pathos every day without thinking about it? Can you think of some examples? 2. Do these concepts apply to politics and advertising as well as person-to-person persuasion? Can you think of some examples? 3. Are there other means of persuasion that Aristotle did not discuss?

  7. Activity 1- Getting Ready to Read Consider the title and the subheads in the article “Three Ways to Persuade” by John R. Edlund. What is this article about? What do the three terms “ethos,” “logos,” and “pathos” mean? Now read the whole article, thinking briefly about the discussion questions at the end of each section.

  8. Activity 2 Exploring Key Concepts For each term, answer the following questions: 1. What does this term mean to you? 2. Should we use the Greek word, or is there an English word that means exactly the same thing? 3. Look at the discussion questions for each section. Are Aristotle’s three terms relevant to your own writing?

  9. Homework Write down 5 evidences of Logos, Pathos, and Ethos (each) that you encountered prior to our next class. Come prepared to share out. Look for: What parents or teachers say Advertisements Facebook/social media

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