November 17, 2015

We started the day with a visit to the library for our 15 minutes of independent reading time. After that, students responded to this question in their Writer's Notebooks: If the technology existed to upload your brain and live indefinitely, would you have any ethical concerns about doing it?

We revisited the ads that we found yesterday that employed different persuasive techniques. Groups replied to two of the ads on Classroom and explained how that ad used the selected technique.

We finished up the argument and persuasion notes (page 632) and put our understanding into practice. I displayed several print ads, and students evaluated them for the use of logos, ethos, and pathos.

I distributed copies of Anna Quindlen's commencement speech, and students will examine the speech for parallelism, repetition, analogy, and allusion. We'll also look for logos, ethos, and pathos and dissect the structure of the speech. This where we'll begin tomorrow!

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