Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in Our Lives

Towards the end of last week, we were looking more in depth into the foundations of public speaking. We discovered and studied the new concepts of the words:

• Ethos – the self, establish credibility, establish strong character, community, trust


• Pathos – evokes emotions: happiness, fear, sadness, anger, “coolness,” etc.


• Logos - based on logic and reasoning, statistics, things that “make sense”

Your Task Today: Over the weekend, your homework was to identify and be able to discuss ethos, pathos, and logos’ role in your life. For today’s blog entry, you are going to explain how these three rhetorical appeals impact you. What to Include:

• The Title/Description of Something with Ethos, Pathos, and/or Logos


• The Medium in which this was displayed (TV Commercial, Speech, Billboard, etc.)


• An Explanation of how Ethos, Pathos, and Logos were present


• An Explanation of how Ethos, Pathos, and Logos impacted this thing

Rubric Proficient – analysis is a minimum of 10 sentences, provides an in-depth look into the significance of ethos, pathos, and logos, provides clear and logical examples, is well-written Non-Proficient – less than 10 sentences, does not provide in-depth look into significance, examples are unclear or illogical

What can YOU do?

There are many things going on in the world today - many of which you have great interest in! Your task today is to find an article that deals with something you care about in the world and post it on the blog. The article that you find should be from one of the websites on the “Popular News” website on the side bar.

Once you have your article, post a link to it on the blog below and answer the following questions:

1. What does you article deal with? What is the overall topic?
2. Why is this topic/issue important to you?
3. Why should others care about this topic?

Be sure to use effective sentences, subject verb agreement, and be thorough (8+ sentences, each!) with your answers!