1. Agenda Bell Ringer: M.U.G. Shot Sentences Set 3
Parallel Structure
Introduction to Rhetorical Appeals
Guided Notes over Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
Class Practice with speech by Malala Yousafzai
Formative Assessment: Jesse Williams’ BET Speech

2. M.U.G. Shot Sentences Set 3
This set of sentences will focus on Parallel Structure. What is Parallel Structure? Whenever you include a list of actions or list of items in a sentence, you must use the same grammatical pattern for each element of the list.

3. Parallel Structure
Examples
Gerunds: Mary likes hiking, swimming, and bicycling.
Infinitive Phrases: Mary likes to hike, to swim, and to ride a bicycle.
Clauses: The coach told the players that they should get a lot of sleep, that they should not eat too much, and that they should do some warm-up exercises before the game.
Lists after a colon: The dictionary can be used to find these: word meanings, pronunciations, correct spellings, and irregular verbs.

4. Day 1:
washing her hair the printout of her meeting notes and filling her gas tank were the things she needed to do this morning Find as many mistakes as you can, and make corrections as necessary.

5. Day 1:
Washing her hair, printing her meeting notes, and filling her gas tank were the things she needed to do this morning. Capitalize beginning of sentences, items in a list must have the same grammatical construction (parallel structure).

6. Lesson 01: Intro to Rhetorical appeals
Ethos, Pathos, Logos

7. logos Logos = Logic Appeals to reason Appeals to common sense
Lays out an argument
Facts
Statistics
Information
Expert testimonial, examples, polls, etc.

8. pathos Pathos = Emotion Appeals to feelings
Tries to establish an emotional connection.
Figurative language is key.
May make reader/listener feel an extreme emotion.
Often involves anecdotes – individual examples.

9. Ethos Ethos = Credibility Establishes the speaker as a person who is
Credible
Trustworthy
Respected
The speaker is someone worth listening to because they have authority on the subject.
May evoke both Logos and Pathos.

10. Class practice
This speech by Malala Yousafzai is short, but contains all three appeals. Identify her overall purpose. Listen for ethos, pathos, and logos.
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Write down one example of LOGOS, one example of PATHOS, and one example of ETHOS

11. Class practice Overall Purpose? Example of Ethos? Example of Logos?
Example of Pathos?

12. Jesse Williams Speech to BET
As a class:
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On your own:
Identify and record his overall purpose.
Highlight and label in different colors:
LOGOS
PATHOS
ETHOS
THEN—pick one example and explain how you know he’s using that appeal. Then, explain how that appeal makes the speaker’s argument more convincing.

13. Explanation format Quotation from text Identification of appeal
How you know it’s that appeal
How the appeal contributes to the overall message

14. Example Explanation:
When Malala says, “66 million girls don’t have an education,” she uses logos because she is using a direct statistic. It makes her argument more convincing because the number is so large that it surprises the audience and makes them want to help.