1. “_______ Jason and Tanya like the new band uniforms?”
Do Now
grammar exercise: use either don’t or doesn’t to complete this sentence and explain why you chose your answer.
“_______ Jason and Tanya like the new band uniforms?”
descriptive writing exercise: make the following sentence more detailed –
“I will remember you.”

2. The art of persuasive language
Rhetoric
The art of persuasive language

3. Instructions
watch the following commercials that first earlier this year
after each commercial I will pause the video, take down notes about what you just watched? Was it funny, sad, heart-warming? If you had unlimited funds, would you be persuaded to go purchase that product?
at the end, write down which commercial was your favorite and why you liked it.

5. Instructions
which commercial did you like best and why?

6. Rhetoric definition: common rhetorical devices:
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques
common rhetorical devices:
alliteration, repetition, simile, metaphor, analogy, diacope, parallelism, sententia

7. Rhetorical appeals
greek philosopher Aristotle identified three elements to the art of persuasion or in other terms three primary reasons why human beings are persuaded to do/buy/say certain things.
Ethos – the appeal to credibility or trustworthiness
Pathos – the appeal to emotions like love, hope, anger, fear, humor
Logos – the appeal to the logical and rational