Rhetoric 101

After previews and diagnostic prompts, time to remind you of rhetorical analysis and how it works. To start class, we looked at strategies, modes of discourse, and fallacies, working with our cards to learn definitions and starting your suggested toolbox to help you with these terms. Congratulations to fifth hour for their 5/5 rounds, the only class today to accomplish 100% accuracy! Following further vocabulary - we are 12 words through (although 5th hour somehow has 13) - we looked at rhetoric, the art of argument, the methods to create a position on a topic, and its companion analysis that  centers on the "what" or the strategies and the "why" or the purpose. At its minimal level, those three Musketeers of persuasive appeals - logos, ethos, pathos - are central to argument formation. If in trouble in an analysis, we have the familiar and broad categories of diction, syntax, and tone. Now as we continue forward, you want to start noting "big kid" strategies too, which become more noticeable with more term knowledge, more practice, and more texts. Due to block scheduling variables today, the classes are in different spots. First hour has read out the next test for comprehension and any initial patterns or devices. Third hour was in the middle of our geometry work. Fifth hour has finished our review of rhetorical analysis and will start the new text on Thursday.