1. Announcements
Progress Reports are coming soon. Are you mindful of your grade in here?
Be sure you’re reviewing Word Wall.
Writing Workshop coming up.
New Words will be due next Tuesday and not tomorrow, there will be a text structure and rhetoric quiz tomorrow over today’s lesson.

2. Agenda/Expectations Agenda: Bell Work: Math Minute EQ 50 *Brief notes
*Practice with identifying Rhetoric within a text
Exit Slip
Expectations:
Participate by staying on task and not being distracting
Listen actively
Demonstrate understanding of EQ 50 by the end of the period

3. Essential Question 50
How do you identify the author’s use of rhetoric?
Does anyone have a guess on the meaning of rhetoric?

4. Notes! We will write just a few sentences for our notes.
Write everything in BLUE in the notes section of your notebook or folder.

5. What is Rhetoric? Rhetoric: ways of persuading an audience
In a previous lesson, you learned about ethos, logos, and pathos. These are called “rhetorical devices” because they are used to persuade an audience.
*Ethos- appeals to ethics, morals, credibility
*Logos- appeals by using logical, reasonable ideas
*Pathos- appeals to emotions, values, desires, hopes

6. Draw this Rhetorical Triangle in your notes!

7. Identifying Rhetoric
You are responsible for knowing how to identify rhetoric.
You can identify rhetoric by using SOAPS. This mnemonic device helps you organize ideas rhetorically.
SOAPS:
S: Subject
O: Occasion
A: Audience
P: Purpose
S: Speaker

8. Let’s do SOAPS together!
-In your notes, skip a line and write, “SOAPS Practice 1.” -Albert Einstein won a Nobel Prize in Physics in A sixth grade student, Phyllis Wright, wrote him a letter asking him a question, “Do Scientists Pray?” -Refer to your handout and read Einstein’s letter and identify SOAPS. -You have 3 minutes to read the letter.

9. SOAPS Practice 1: Einstein’s Letter S: Subject O: Occasion A: Audience P: Purpose S: Speaker
S: Whether scientists pray O: Einstein receiving a letter from Phyllis Wright asking questions about science and faith A: Phyllis herself P: Respond a schoolgirl’s sincere question, while trying to expand Phyllis’ thinking S: Einstein the scientist

10. Individual Mastery
In your notes, skip a line and write, “SOAPS Practice 2.”
Using SOAPS, analyze the author’s use of rhetoric in George W. Bush’s 9/11 speech.
You have 6 minutes to read his speech.

11. Individual Mastery Continued
At this point on your paper, you should have notes, SOAPS Practice 1 and SOAPS Practice 2.
Now please number 3-6.
For each excerpt, identify it as ethos, logos, or pathos.

12. Individual Mastery Continued
3. My three decades of experience in public service, my tireless commitment to the people of this community, and my willingness to reach across the aisle and cooperate with the opposition, make me the ideal candidate for your mayor. 4. They’ve worked against everything we’ve worked so hard to build, and they don’t care who gets hurt in the process. Make no mistake, they’re the enemy, and they won’t stop until we’re destroyed.

13. Individual Mastery Continued
5. More than one hundred peer-reviewed studies have been conducted over the past decade, and none of them suggests that this is an effective treatment for hair loss. 6. Don’t be the last person on the block to have their lawn treated-you don’t want to the laughing stock of your neighborhood!

14. Exit Slip: Write your name and answers on your card
Exit Slip: Write your name and answers on your card *Use my examples as help, but don’t copy*
There are several other rhetorical devices such as parallelism, repetition, alliteration, allusion, rhetorical questions. Re-write the below sentences using a rhetorical device.
Use a Rhetorical question:
We should donate more money to hungry children in Africa. Example: How can we ignore the plight of starving children in Africa?
Use logos:
More Canadian should use public transit.
Example: Public transit is less expensive and more environmentally conscious than driving and should be used by more Canadians.