We began Unit 2: Argumentation/Persuasion

In class, we turned in the Compare/Contrast Essay C-Notes at the beginning of class to the class bin by the door. They count as a quiz grade.

The Morphological Magic Word was “perfidious”.

Spiral Notebook Page 15: Brain Warmer

In 3 to 4 complete sentences, describe a time where you had to be persuasive. How did you convince the other person to do or think what you wanted? Why were you successful or unsuccessful?

Spiral Notebook Page 16: Unit 2 Argumentation/Logos Cornell Notes

Heading in upper right corner should be…
•Topic: Arguments
•Source: Lecture
•Date: October 22, 2012
•Essential Question for today: How can one influence society’s decisions and actions?
•Objective for today: SWBAT explain the purpose for persuasion/arguments; identify, describe, and create an example of a “logos” appeal
Notes on right side of the paper:

Persuasion

•Definition: a method of using logical/emotional/ethical appeals to convince a person or group to think or act a certain way

 Argument

•Definition: set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong; often uses rhetorical devices.

Rhetoric

•Definition: the art of speaking and writing effectively

•To be persuasive in an argument, one should use rhetorical devices/appeals

Rhetorical Appeals

•For complete persuasion, one’s argument should have all three appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos

o Logos: a logical appeal

-convinces a person using logic, reasoning, facts, statistics, examples

-is specific, reliable, truthful, can be proven

-Logos Example: “Cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.”

Spiral Notebook Page 15: Make the chart and fill as we do the examples

Example Logos element found Why is it logos?
Ben Bernanke Speech
-“1 to 2 percent”
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-“Loan Officer Opinion Survey”
 -it is statistical fact to add to the argument-it is logos because it is a real survey that provides data/fact
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CNN News Clip
Legally Blonde Courtroom Scene

7th period

Monday we tracked their mastery on Unit 1. Tuesday we fixed our Compare/Contrast Essay Cornell Notes (see the assignment in the post below this one). The due date for these Cornell Notes is Thursday, October 25 in the beginning of class. It will be a Quiz grade for Quarter 2!