Animal Farm Chapter 1

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: None

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Introduction to Animal Farm: The Rhetoric of Tyranny
1. 3 Ways to use power
1. Persuasion
2. Violence
3. Manipulation
2. Ethos, Pathos, Logos
1. Logos- reasoned account
2. Ethos- character of the person
3. Pathos- creation of certain emotions
3. Poster instructions
1. Symbol for Tyranny
2. Definition of Persuasion, Violence, and Manipulation
3. Connect Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to the words in step 2
2. Start reading Animal Farm chapter 1
1. Context and Exigence for Old Major's speech
2. Speaker and Audience for Old Major's speech

Homework:

1. None