Tuesday, October 6

Today, the 8A and 8B groups went about class in two different ways.

Both groups received an information sheet, and permission slip, for next Friday's tour of Saint Mary's College High School. Any students who wish to go on the trip need to turn this in by Tuesday, October 13. For an extra copy, please click on the link below:

SMCHS Permission Slip and Information

The 8B group began by writing a short paragraph that explained why one student paragraph (out of five possibilities) used logos most effectively. When finished, you were given an assignment -- to design three advertisements for a particular Animal Farm political candidate (either Snowball, Squealer, or Napoleon). Each ad needs to emphasize a different sort of rhetorical approach (i.e. one for pathos, one for ethos, and one for logos) but elements of all three can be included in each ad as well. You could choose to work by yourself or with a partner. You chose various approaches to advertising for your candidates, and, once some technical issues were ironed out, dove in enthusiastically.

The 8A group began by looking at, and discussing, a number of different television ads for political candidates -- specifically, at ads using fear (a form of pathos) and ads using a candidate's biography (a form of ethos). The link to these ads (and their website, which is excellent!), is below:

Political Advertisements

Afterwards, you were asked to design two ads -- one using pathos, and one using ethos -- to support your Animal Farm candidate. You could choose to work individually, with one partner, or with two partners (in which case, you would need to design a third ad, using logos). Your drawings of pigs and slogans began to take shape as the period drew to a close.

No homework is due tomorrow, but please don't forget to finish chapters 6 & 7 by Tuesday.