The Architecture of Argument: Ethos, Logos, Pathos, and the Counterargument: Reading Unit 2, Grade 12 (Letters & Devotion)

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The Architecture of Argument: Ethos, Logos, Pathos, and the Counterargument is Unit 2 of Literature, Rhetoric, and the Examined Life (Part 1) (Grade 12), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 85 pages.

• Ethos, logos, pathos as categories of appeal
• Audience-relativity of rhetorical effectiveness
• Claim-evidence-warrant structure (Toulmin-derived)
• Counterargument and rebuttal as structural argument components
• Straw man, false dilemma, and ad hominem fallacies
• Strength/weakness of a stated counterargument relative to its strongest available form
• Integrated appeal identification and counterargument evaluation applied to a novel controversy
• Transferability of the argument-architecture schema across genres/domains
• Unit’s core rhetorical vocabulary

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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