Daily Annoucements
I post here daily about what we accomplished in class each day, including handouts and links available to students on my CANVAS site.
Thursday and Friday, 3/22-23
Days 39-40, Semester 2 The main goal of class time for these two days has been to write three body paragraphs in an analysis essay on the use of ethos, logos, and pathos in the speeches by Brutus and Mark Antony in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. First, on Thursday we discussed the key words from the prompt: "complex power struggle." We defined power and identified many different kinds of power, and then we identified types of power that Brutus and Mark Antony had and types of power that they lacked at the beginning of their speeches. We also discussed the requirement in the prompt that a successful essay will "identify a clear goal for each rhetorical appeal." These goals should be related to gaining power that the speaker lacks or undermining power that the other speaker possesses. For the rest of the class on Thursday, students worked to identify examples of ethos from the speech and to write the draft of the paragraph analyzing the speaker's use of ethos. For homework, students needed to finish the ethos paragraph (and share the Google Document with me) and select examples of both logos and pathos to prepare for writing those two paragraphs in class on Friday. Friday's class was primarily work time for writing the logos and pathos paragraphs and getting feedback on the ethos paragraph as needed. Homework (after Friday's class): Finish writing the logos and pathos paragraphs as needed. 4th Period needs to study for the vocabulary quiz on Monday. 1st and 3rd period will take the Midterm Skills Test on Monday and take the vocabulary quiz on Tuesday. 4th period will take the Midterm on Tuesday.
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