Objective: Jedis will be able to identify an author's purpose and the types of appeals they choose to include in their writing.
Agenda:
1. Jedi Meditation & Journal: What is “mental health”? Why is it important to be aware of your mental health? What are three things you can do to help your mental health?
2. Understanding an author's purpose and appeals:
Agenda:
1. Jedi Meditation & Journal: What is “mental health”? Why is it important to be aware of your mental health? What are three things you can do to help your mental health?
2. Understanding an author's purpose and appeals:
- Author's purpose: their reason for writing
- inform/explain, entertain, reflect, persuade
- Types of persuasive appeals
- Appeal to authority: statements/quotes from experts on the topic
- Appeal to reason: logical arguments based on verifiable evidence, such s facts or data
- Appeal to emotion: statements that attempt to affect the reader's feelings
- includes charged language-- words, phrases, and overall verbal and written communication with strong positive or negative associations intended to inspire emotion in the reader or listener
- Also called emotive language, high-inference language, or loaded terms:
- Gain support
- Sway opinions
- Degrade others (such as in a political campaign)
- Gain a political foothold
- Push an agenda
3. What is JFK's purpose in the excerpt called "The Immigrant Contribution"?
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