10-17-16 Torey Prol
Hey Everyone!
Today Mr. Rivers opened class with the content that will be on tomorrow's quiz, which is on literary devices, defining rhetoric, analyzing text, and how to alter a given text to change its rhetoric. The class seemed pretty overwhelmed when the slide popped up from the overhead and the teacher was beginning to get bombarded with questions. Someone even raised their hand and asked the million dollar question, "Well, how are we supposed to analyze text and change it to get a different meaning?" and luckily, Mr. Rivers had the answer.
He set us up with classwork that had included us writing a mini speech, but before we wrote it, Mr. Rivers had us pick a person from a specific point of view, whether that've been age, job, or social status and give a speech as if we were that person. Next he had us choose our target audience, that had the same types of people as the ones we chose from before.  After we had our two types of people picked, we had to select a verb explaining what our own text would do to the audience affected. The first time we wrote our speech, the class was told to appeal to the Logos (facts, statistics) point of our individual arguments. We then learned how to change our speeches to cater towards the Pathos or Ethos of our argument to find different viewpoints of our writing.
I think Mr. Rivers's exercise really helped the class understand how to analyze text, especially since it was our own writing that we were changing.
See you all tomorrow!
Torey