Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Homework for Chapter 2 -- Pathos

For Thursday, we are reading Chapter 2 on Pathos. Please also complete Activity #4 on page 41 for homework and bring it to class on Thursday. You can find lots of examples of humorous arguments on facebook, twitter, pinterest, google images, etc. Bring in examples that resonate with you in some way.

Here is one that resonates with the English teacher in me:


It is making an argument about the way that many people no longer learn grammar rules and the repercussions of that, how that lack of attention to rules of punctuation, for example, is harmful to our society (aking to being eaten by a monster or large animal as in this image).

1 comment:

  1. i believe the use og grammer is very important because without it one can or will get easily confused. grammer is a key part in writing and reading as well as understanding.
    this picture represents a picture of a old lady about to be eaten by a hippo. the picture says "let's eat grandma! or Let's eat, grandma!" just by adding that comma after eat it changes the whle story. by the use of a comma instead of literally eating your grandma youre asking her to go eat something.
    this picture means a lot and also talks about the lack of proper grammer that one uses.

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