Patricia Aldrich- 10.3.16

Today in class Mr. Rivers showed us a an SAT question and explained that even though some parts of the question will change depending on our SAT, the structure of the question will remain the same. It was basically asking to analyze the view of the author and argue how it argued the author's point. Since we were talking about persuading we then reflected on what we went over on Friday about rhetoric vs literary works of writing. Rhetoric is persuasive.=, and literary is explaining a story. After that we talked about the clown hoax for a little while. We used logos (stats), ethos (credibility), and pathos (emotion), while talking about them. Mr. Rivers was explaining how the clown hoax was playing with pathos by inflicting fear on us. From there we went on to how to properly structure an argument.... you would structure the argument by using pathos, ethos, and or logos. You have to be conscientious of your audience however when you use one because you need to make sure what you are using will help to strengthen your argument. After that we read sinners and highlighted either ethos pathos or logos. My group did ethos and it was hard because there wasn't really any credible sources that popped out at you, you had to kind of dig deep, so we highlighted anything that referenced God. Then we changed groups so we could see what other people had said and we went through and found a lot of pathos in Sinners but also not a lot of logos. There really were no stats, only 3 things were highlighted.