Monday, February 8th

After introducing the students to the "Thinking Persuasively" activity, we spent Monday reviewing the info we learned last week. I was pleased at how well the students had begun to understand the definitions of rhetoric terms- logos, kairos, pathos, ethos, etc. I had the kids analyze magazine articles through the lens of rhetoric, and identify which persuasive strategies were being used by the ads. The students did really well with this activity, but come Monday when I began to ask them to apply those concepts to persuasive writing topics they drew pretty significant blanks. Time to bridge the gap.