After having quite a few hectic weeks we actually had a regular schedule all five days! On Monday we learned about rhetoric. After taking a few notes, we were put in groups of three and every group had a different passage from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Then we proceeded to think about why Steinbeck put these passages in his novel, hence learining about rhetoric. On Tuesday we turned in our independent reading assignment essay for the quarter. Most of us got a big surprise with the ending Of Mice and Men. Venturing further on into our week we started to learn about debates and persuasion only to find out we were going to hold a debate of our own. After the topics were distributed to their assigned student groups, we wasted no time getting to work finding points to bring up in our debates. For quite a significant part of the week we rigorously worked on our debate points. We thought about which of Aristotles three elements of persuason would best appeal to our audience and be the most powerful elements to use, logos pathos or ethos.
All in all we started the week with rhetoric, handed in our essays and ended the week and the quarter preparing for our debates.
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