Monday, October 5

Today, Chapters 4 & 5 of Animal Farm were due. Accordingly, we began class by asking each of you to answer four questions about the book. Although you could answer all of them with information covered in the first four chapters, you could certainly incorporate material from later in the book as well. To see the questions, click on the link below:

Animal Farm 4 & 5

When you finished, we distributed a handout with five of the "logos" paragraphs that you wrote last week, on Tuesday. We chose five that focused on the "locks on lockers" issue. You read each paragraph and made brief note of its strengths and weaknesses.

Next, we had a ten-minute discussion about the potential advantages, and disadvantages, of using pathos, logos, and ethos when trying to convince an audience. You raised some great points, some of which are represented in the picture below:



Finally, we asked you to rank the five student paragraphs in order, from most effective to least effective. Once you were done, you departed.

No homework was assigned tonight, but chapters 6 & 7 are due next Tuesday.