Audience: Teaching Persuasion

There is a certain time of the year where I feel like I eat,
breath, and dream ethos, pathos, and logos. 
State of Texas, can I please teach mythology?  Or archetypes? Or WHOLE NOVELS?  I’ll even take Julius Cesar at this point.
But alas, it’s always coming up persuasion.
Anyway, audience is always a tricky subject.  Either the kids get it, or they don’t.  Either I have time to teach it fully, or I
don’t.  Depending on the group of
students and depending on the year I’m either dedicating a few days to the
concept or barely making it a topic of discussion.
I guess my point is to say here is a worksheet that I use to
evaluate if the kids get it.  If they do,
I move on.  If they don’t… well, then I
use more in-depth measures.

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