Author's Purpose
9th Grade Reading · 20 lessons
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Lessons in this unit
- 1The Rhetorical SituationAnalyze a text's speaker, audience, purpose, context, and occasion before judging its choices.
- 2Ethos: Building CredibilityIdentify how writers establish trustworthiness through expertise, shared values, and fairness.
- 3Pathos: Appealing to EmotionAnalyze how writers use vivid detail, story, and imagery to move an audience, and when it becomes manipulation.
- 4Logos: Evaluating Logical AppealsAnalyze how writers use evidence and reasoning, and evaluate the strength of that reasoning.
- 5Kairos: The Right MomentAnalyze how timing and context make an argument more or less persuasive.
- 6Balancing the AppealsEvaluate how writers combine ethos, pathos, and logos, and how the balance fits the audience.
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