LEARNING TARGETS:  By the end of today’s class you should be able to:

1. Summarize the main ideas and historical importance of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.”
2. Explain the THREE TYPES OF PERSUASION  (in your own words)
   1. Ethos
   2. Pathos
   3. Logos
3. Be able to categorize several of Paine’s arguments as one of the above types.

IN CASE YOU WERE ABSENT, HERE’S WHAT WE DID

1. Took Vocab Quiz Unit 9
2. Read excerpts from “Common Sense” and judged whether they were Ethos, Pathos or Logos.

 

Time permitting: analyzed the following passage from the Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.