1/7: AP Lang

Students will discuss arguments by comparing a TED Talk and another video clip.

Agenda:
- Warm-up: Basic Knowledge Test
- Pass back Adversity Essays

- What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion - Conor Neill
1. What could've made Joshua Bell's performance more successful?
2. Identify as many experiences wherein you anticipated a positive reaction and didn't get it
3. What can you add to Aristotle's three means of persuasion to make your ideas more successful?

- A Similar Experiment
4. This impromptu performance didn't get the same reaction.  Why?
5. How are current American values reflected in this experiment with opposite effects?
6. Fit as many elements of this experiment into ethos-pathos-logos.  What did you see?

Reminders:
- Return Frederick Douglass books, if needed
- Turn in 1988 Douglass Outline, if needed

HW:

- Define AP Lang Course Terms