Personal and Social Responsibility

ASSIGNMENT 1: The Art of Persuasion

Learning Target (Curricular Competencies):

  • Recognize and appreciate how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts enhance and shape meaning and impact
  • Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multi-modal texts

How do you get exactly what you want just using your words? Over two thousand years ago Aristotle defined three appeals to persuasion to do just that. Watch this video to find out more about the power of persuasion:

Tasks:  Summarize and identify the three modes of persuasion in a graphic organizer. 

1.  After reading the handout below, create a visual graphic organizer to SUMMARIZE the main definitions and how to achieve each type of persuasion.  If you need some ideas as to how to create a graphic organizer, here is an example of how to design your visual.   You may complete this by hand, scan and submit or use a digital tool or template like bubble.us.  Just be sure it is your own work! 

Assessment:  Below you will find the exemplary criteria used to assess the assignment.  

Learning Target: (Exemplary 6/6): Exemplary comprehension of the task and clear accomplishment of the objective.  All key elements of the content have been included in a personal, creative summary. 

Presentation:  Exemplary (6/6):  Content is effectively presented in a visual graphic organizer that presents the information in an easily readable and attractive way.   

Submission

Use the "4.1 The Art of Persuasion" link on the main page of this section of the course to upload your assignment to your teacher for marking.