Learning Goals
Students will be able to analyze how logos, pathos, and ethos shape point of view and reader response in a class-selected novel using cited textual evidence.
Students will be able to determine the author's purpose and perspective in key passages by explaining how style and content work together to persuade the reader.
Students will be able to trace how character development and conflict change across the text through the author's rhetorical choices and point of view.
Students will be able to cite and explain relevant textual evidence to support an interpretation of how a specific rhetorical appeal functions in the novel.
Students will be able to compare how irony, satire, sarcasm, or understatement contribute to the author's effect in selected passages.
Students will be able to collaborate to evaluate, critique, and revise evidence for a shared interpretation focused on one rhetorical appeal.
Students will be able to connect logos, pathos, and ethos in the novel to real-world persuasion in community messages and public decisions.
Products
Annotated Rhetoric Portfolio with Claim, Evidence, Reasoning, and Counterargument
Each student will compile a portfolio analyzing logos, pathos, and ethos in the class novel. The portfolio will include a clear claim, textual evidence, credibility notes, warrants, and a fair counterargument with rebuttal.
Public Rhetorical Defense and Community Exhibit on a Character’s Influence Today
Teams will present a public defense of how one rhetorical appeal shapes a character, reader response, and real-world impact. Their exhibit will combine an oral defense, visual evidence display, and a synthesis of strongest evidence and counterarguments.
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