Monday, February 4 - Wednesday, February 6: Analyzing an Advertisement using Logos, Pathos, and Ethos

Here's Jean's analysis of the image. A full analysis follows.

Here are some examples of the group work students completed Tuesday. On Wednesday students did a gallery walk and recorded notes from each poster on a handout. 

What is Rhetoric?

Slips of paper with vocabulary terms: 

 Here are a few examples of the categories students created for these new vocabulary words. The purpose of this activity is to help students become familiar with the words and deepen their thinking before we learn how they are all related. 

The goal is that as we learn what each term means, students will begin reformulating the categories in their heads.

When students completed this portion of the activity they began taking notes and answering questions about rhetoric. 

Here are some examples of the categories activity after students learned what the vocabulary terms meant: 

KWL: Rhetoric and Persuasion

The Rhetoric of Food

Hey! Miss a day of school? Confused about what's going on? Check out a backlog of do nows, activities, notes, and completed student work for the Rhetoric Unit!

Here is the introduction lesson to the Rhetoric of Food unit:

We will be using illustrations from Michael Pollan's Food Rules to help improve inferencing skills. Each day you will be looking at an illustration from the illustrated edition of the book and making a prediction as to what "rule" it might have been inspired by. By doing this we will be learning important information about the food we eat while improving important skills--inferencing and predicting.

For more about Michael Pollan check out his website: http://michaelpollan.com/books/food-rules/

and the video we watched in class:

 http://michaelpollan.com/videos/michael-pollan-on-abcs-good-morning-america/