10/5/16 - Colin Higdon

Today in class we continued working on thesis statements about the speech "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" written by Jonathan Edwards n 1741. The thesis statement was about what the speech did. My group's thesis statement was about how the speech persuades people by evoking a certain fear of going to hell due to the sins they have committed. After we were finished interrogating our thesis statements, to interrogate means to ask questions, we started to come up with topic sentences for our writing. Our topic sentences were based off of our thesis statement. One of my group's original topic sentences were "Sinners in the hands of an angry god" uses pathos to try and relate to the audience in Massachusetts. After "interrogating" the sentence we came up with "Edwards creates fear through the use of metaphors of not attending mass on a daily basis, claiming god will gain hatred towards those sinners. We continued practicing interrogating our sentences and we then put them on google classroom at the end of class.