Grade 10 Reading Worksheets
From ancient speeches to modern ads, persuasion runs on three engines Aristotle named 2,300 years ago. Learn them and you'll see them everywhere.
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What your child will learn: Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion
- Ethos = credibility ('As a doctor for 20 years...'). Pathos = emotion (the sad puppy in the commercial). Logos = logic (statistics, studies, reasoning).
- Rhetorical devices: repetition ('I have a dream...'), rhetorical questions ('Aren't your children worth it?'), and parallelism build power.
- Watch for fallacies, persuasion tricks like bandwagon ('everyone's buying it!'), ad hominem (attacking the person, not the idea), and false dilemma ('either this or disaster').
- Strong readers ask: What is this text doing to me, and does the evidence actually hold?
Sample worksheet questions
1. Identify the logos.
Answer: The AAP recommendation, the 7:15 vs 8:30 comparison, studies on grades/accidents, the forty districts
2. How does the speaker handle the counterargument?
Answer: Concedes buses are a concern, then refutes it with the forty districts example
3. What start time does the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend?
Answer: No earlier than 8:30 a.m.
4. Find a rhetorical device and name it.
Answer: Repetition ('For three years...'), rhetorical question, or the closing parallelism ('Join me... Sign... Let's wake up')
5. Where does the speaker use pathos?
Answer: Frustration of 'three years' of waiting; 'Are we really less capable?' stirs pride
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📺 Ad Autopsy: Watch three commercials and label each one's primary engine: ethos, pathos, or logos. Which was most effective on YOU, and why?
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