Drill 4/29

1. Drill 4/29 • Your essay is DONE! HOORAY! How do you feel about your work, now that the project is completed? • What do you think are the main aspects of transforming your essay into a persuasive speech? What work needs to be done? • What are the components of a successful persuasive speech?

2. Tuesday, April 29th Agenda: Learn about the rhetorical strategies “logos,” “pathos,” and “ethos.” Watch Example Speech Mini-Lesson on Speech Requirements Complete Handout Homework: Practice Your Speech! Speeches Begin on Friday, May 2nd.

3. LOGOS • Logos • An appeal to logic and reason • Example: • School uniforms should be required because it would then be easier for staff to recognize intruders.

4. LOGOS Strategies • Evidence • Examples and illustrations • Facts, statistics • Precedents, laws • Organization • Process • Comparison/contrast • Division/classification • Cause/effect • Definition, description

5. PATHOS • Pathos • An appeal to emotional reaction. • Example: • School uniforms should be required because it alleviates students’ fear of looking different and being picked on because of their clothes. • Suzy Jo McGuillicutty retells the story of when she was made fun of and beaten up because she wore the same blouse two days in a row. Sobbing, she conjures up painful memories of not fitting in.

6. PATHOS • Strategies • Inspiring feeling/empathy/sympathy • Anger, pride, guilt, love, shame, hope, etc. • Awareness of opposition • Awareness of the audience's cultural and emotional background • Race, age, sex, physical characteristics, habits • Economic or educational level • Religious or political affiliation • Ethnicity, country of birth, citizenship, location • Awareness of audience concerns • Needs, values, beliefs of groups audience belongs to all.

7. ETHOS • Ethos • An appeal based on your own credibility. • Example: • Based on research explained in the Winter 2004 issue of Educational Leadership, seventy-four percent of the schools who attempted a uniform policy could not claim success with any certainty since other confounding variables such as higher security and a peer mediation program could just have easily have been the cause of decreased school violence. • In my own observations as a student teacher at Waldo Middle School in Salem, Oregon, I discovered that on “uniform days,” behavior referrals decreased to nearly none, whereas on “dress free days,” referrals spiked to as much as ten times as many.

8. ETHOS • Strategies • Credibility (common sense) • Familiarity with subject • Awareness of broad perspective • Character (virtue) • Respect others' values • Value welfare of others • Show integrity, trustworthiness, open-mindedness • Confidence (good will) • Show self-understanding • Understand reader needs • Treat reader as equal

9. Example Speech

10. Requirements for Speech Note Cards: 6 note cards allowed for the outline + 3 note cards allowed for 3 different quotes Introduction with • Hook • Background info or context • Thesis statement “Body” of your presentation: follow handout. Remember to use RR: • If/then • rhetorical question • answer question • provide solution Conclusion: • Advanced Transition Word/Phrase and restate thesis in new words • Discuss general problems with your topic and your solution • End with a Call to Action that clearly communicates what the audience can do to help

11. Learning Targets • I can thoughtfully select my three most powerful quotes to use in my speech. • I can organize the content of the persuasive essay into an outline for an effective speech.