Ethos, pathos, and logos. After reading a passage about Aristotle's, three basic tools of persuasion, individuals answer a series of multiple choice comprehension questions and craft responses to three short-answer essay prompts.

Concepts

reading comprehension, reading, critical reading, persuasive techniques

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have class members first share their persuasive political position argument in groups and have the group select one to be read to the whole class

Classroom Considerations

• The resource many be used as a reading assessment or as work to be completed out of class and then shared

Pros

• The comprehension question call for readers to recognize details and to draw inferences from the text
• A detailed answer key is included

Cons

• None