Appeals & Parallelism (Declaration of Independence)

What is ethos?

• ideas or language that appeals to the audience’s sense of ethical behavior

• ideas or language that connects to readers' rationality, logic, or reason

• ideas or language that attempts to influence readers' feelings

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which argument most logically explains Jefferson’s expressed ideas in the Declaration of Independence?

• Any form of government that suppresses people’s freedoms should be overthrown.

• The rights of colonists should be prioritized because they've been through many hardships.

• All forms of government destroy human rights and should be abandoned.

• The rights of men should be supported over those of women.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What is pathos?

• ideas or language that appeals to the audience’s sense of ethical behavior

• ideas or language that connects to readers' rationality, logic, or reason

• ideas or language that attempts to influence readers' feelings

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Rewrite the following sentence to correct errors in

parallel structure.

Thomas Jefferson was a statesman, a diplomat, and he practiced law.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following statements from the Declaration of Independence makes the strongest emotional appeal to readers?

• He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers

• He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly….

• He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his

  protection....

• He is at this time transporting large armies … to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny.…

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is logos?

• ideas or language that appeals to the audience’s sense of ethical behavior

• ideas or language that connects to readers' rationality, logic, or reason

• ideas or language that attempts to influence readers' feelings

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Rewrite the following sentence to correct errors in

parallel structure.

British rulers imposed unfair taxes, deprived people of trial by jury, and they were obstructing the administration of justice.

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CCSS.L.9-10.1A

Which is the best example of logos?

• Teachers should not assign homework because students dislike it.

• Teachers should not assign homework because the average teacher spends five hours a week grading, not including school hours.

• Teachers should not assign homework because students may be overwhelmed with duties and develop negative feelings towards school.

• As someone who graduated high school, I agree that teachers should not assign homework.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which section of the Declaration of Independence demonstrates parallel structure?

• He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

• A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

• He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners...

• The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Pretend you are trying to convince your parents to buy you a car. Type your own example of an appeal to emotion you would use.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5