Day Twenty-Eight / 10.15.10

Today we started with a quote from Henry David Thoreau: “Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.” We discussed, power v. persuasion.

Then we finished going over the article about Texting. We then read silently, then finished our discussion of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. On a separate sheet of paper, please complete the following. Your homework is below:

Persuasive Thesis Statement: _______________

Ethos. Provide 3 reasons for why you are a credible source.

Pathos. Provide 3 reasons for how you can draw someone’s feelings into your argument (humor, appeal to happiness, etc.).

Logos. Provide 3 facts you can use to strengthen your argument.

Show one example of inductive / deductive reasoning to prove one of your facts.

Ethos, Pathos, Logos