The Architecture of Persuasion: Reading Unit 5, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

The Architecture of Persuasion is Unit 5 of English 10: Identity, Society, and the Stories We Tell (Part 2) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 93 pages.

• The rhetorical situation (speaker, audience, purpose, occasion)
• Ethos, logos, and pathos appeals
• The function of an appeal relative to a specific rhetorical situation
• Appeal choices across two texts with a shared theme but different rhetorical situations
• Concession and rebuttal structure
• The relative persuasive weight of competing appeals in a single text
• Audience-appropriate appeal design in an unfamiliar rhetorical situation
• The distinction between rhetorical effectiveness and truth/validity of a claim
• Unit vocabulary: ethos, logos, pathos, rhetorical situation, concession, rebuttal

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.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.