Monday, 12/3/12

Hey South House!

Today's Plan:

• SSR
• Mini Ethos, Pathos, Logos
• Speech Workshop Time

Alright so as usual we started out the day with SSR, and then we went on to Mini Ethos, Pathos, Logos. Basically the breakdown was:

• Ethos: Appeal to knowledge or expertise
• Ex: Things that sound really smart and fancy, like life experience, universities, NY Times, PhD, MA, ABCDEFG.
• Pathos: Appeal to emotion, spice things up
• Ex: Ways to make people feel something, such as anecdotes, emotional word choices, crying injured puppies, etc.
• Logos: Appeal to logic
• Ex: Just the straight facts, and statistics. All the need-to-knows.

(Note: Be careful when using any of these appeals. Although they can be incredibly helpful for your speeches, using them too often can make people feel manipulated, and in the case of Logos, even bored.


So after we wrapped up that lesson we had time to work on our speeches, and then our short class was over! See you all tomorrow.

Reminder: Tomorrow(12/4) is Poetry Out Loud! Should be pretty fun, so come out and support your classmates. If that isn't enough incentive, I'm pretty sure Ortega said she's giving extra credit to those who show up, so there's that. It starts at 7 in the MPR, hopefully see you there!