Ethos Pathos Logos Stations Activity

Teach ethos, pathos, and logos with this fun and engaging station activity. Students move around the room to 10 stations to practice their understanding of ethos, pathos, and logos. This ethos pathos logos activity allows students to practice identifying if a statement appeals to ethos, pathos, or logos. Once students determine the appeal, they must explain their reasoning. This ethos pathos logos activity includes a printable note-taking guide for students to fill out & print for each station. This activity can be completed in stations or you can project the statements at the front of the classroom: Students practice determining the difference between ethos, pathos, and logos by viewing fun and relatable statements on each slide (or at each station). Students then write the appeal and their rationale within their printed note guide. At the end of the activity, students create their own example statements for all three appeals to apply what they have learned. Your students will enjoy traveling to each station to fill out their note-taking guide since it gets them up and out of their seats. The setup for this station activity is EASY. Just print one sheet out per each table group. That’s it.

Teacher instructions: Print out the two-page note-taking guide (double-sided) and hand out to each student. Present this slideshow to your students as they follow along on their note-taking guides. Each slide correlates with a section of the students’ note-taking guide. This portion of the lesson gives students a refresher on what the difference is between ethos, pathos, and logos. It also serves as a cheat sheet for them to use as they move around each station, in case they need reminders. After reviewing ethos, pathos, and logos, then have students complete the station portion of the activity. Place each station printout sheet on each station area (table group) and set a timer for 4 minutes per station.

Options for this lesson: The slideshow allows for discussion within the lesson. There are ten statements within the slideshow. You can have students pause during each of the ten slides and have them discuss which appeal is present and why within their small groups or partners. Then, you can have them share out after. You can also have students pull up the slides on a computer and let them work in groups to complete the lesson if you would like students to be more involved in their learning.

• Stations: There are also 10 printable versions of this slideshow if you would like to print them and create 10 areas of the classroom for students to move to at their own pace or in small groups. (They can go to each station out of order while filling in their guide.

Sub plans: This slideshow can also be left for students an easy subplan. Leave printed copies of the student note-taking guides and push this slideshow out in “View Only” mode to Google Classroom. Students can independently work on this lesson using a computer/Chromebook and their note guide. (This means they would not do this as a station but as an independent assignment.

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Please let me know how this lesson works in your classroom. 🙂

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