Caged Animals

LI Analyse text to identify examples of ethos, pathos and logos.

Persuasive Reading Analysis: Caged Animals

Take another look at the persuasive piece of reading/ writing.

What strategies does the author use to try to persuade you?

Below are strategies writers often use for this form of writing.  Read through each

strategy and decide whether the author used that strategy by writing yes or no in the second column. If you write yes, then explain how the author used that strategy.

Persuasive strategy	Yes / No	How the author used it?
Claim – States the main   point or stance	YES	The author says “Most animals kept caged up in zoos will never know how living free feels”.
Big Names –  Mentions experts and important people to support the argument	YES	Take for example Atlanta's own Willie B. Willie B. is probably Atlanta's most famous animal, but do you think he cares or even knows. All he knows is that he has been sitting in a cage for over 20 years. This is some facts about Willie. B which supports her argument.
Logos – Uses logic, numbers, or  facts to support the argument	YES	Some facts the author uses to support his or hers writing are, Polar bears are animals who are used to sub-zero temperatures and putting them in a place like Atlanta, where the temperature can reach well into the 90's is cruel. For an animal like the elephant, however, it is the opposite.
Pathos – Appeals to the audience’s emotions	YES	The Author appeals to the audience’s emotions when he or she says “As a kid I used to love going to the zoo and seeing all of the different animals”. And “I did not use to think twice about how the animals must feel trapped in those small cages”.
Ethos – Tries to build trust and credibility	YES	The author has credibility because she or he knows a lot about animals and how they are caged.
Kairos – Builds a sense of urgency   for the cause	NO
Research – Uses studies and   information to make the   argument seem more convincing;   this can be in the form of words, graphs, tables, or illustrations	NO

Excluding

Excluding L3

Who	What	When	Where	Why
Students	Excluding is not acceptable		All around the WORLD	Because they may think they are cool or really mean

How do people feel when they are excluded?

What can we do to stop people from being excluded?

Can being excluded affect their education?

People who are left out, may affect their self esteem and confidence?

Let’s change EXCLUDING to INCLUDING

What may happen to people that have been excluded?

Lets Change Excluded to Included. You may not recognize this at school but, a lot of students have no friends. This probably happens because they don’t want to communicate and play with others or else they are excluded.

What does excluded mean? Well according to the dictionary it means “to shut or keep out”. This means these people are being shut or turn down from other individuals probably because they don’t like them or they think they're weird.

I truly believe it is not acceptable to exclude people. People are excluded all over the world. I’ve been excluded before and in my experience I felt terrible. Being excluded may cause people to have less confidence in themselves and having a low self esteem. This also impacts on a person’s ability to make friends.

 

If you Exclude others, you may affect their education. By disturbing them in class, their grades may drop. If this leads on until they're older, there might be a chance of them having an unacceptable future. This is another reason why I strongly disagree with excluding.

In conclusion, I told you some negative stuff about being excluded and excluding others. Throughout my writing I hope you stop with the excluding and think about the other people. So if you see another student by him or herself I hope by this writing you would stop and make a better choice and be friends with him or her.

Make a choice ‘Lets change Excluded to Included!