Ethos Pathos Logos Slides & Rhetorical Appeals Digital Reading Escape Activity

Ethos Pathos Logos Slides & Rhetorical Appeals Digital Reading Escape Activity: This digital ethos, pathos, and logos reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of the three rhetorical appeals in persuasive writing! The detailed Google Slides presentation introduces the 3 rhetorical appeals with clear examples, ensuring student understanding from the start. The highlight of the resource is the engaging digital escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must pass a test to become a secret agent. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack an ethos, pathos, and logos challenge to unlock the solution and find the password to become a secret agent!

This is a digital resource and students complete all the work on the computer. This works well with distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, or online education.

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Included in This Digital Ethos, Pathos, Logos Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Rhetorical Appeals Google Slides: Use these Google Slides presentation slides to guide the ethos, pathos, logos lesson and activity with instructional slides on Aristotle's three persuasive rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos) with definitions and examples of each. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Become a Secret Agent Narrative Back Story: Next, students are ready to put what they have learned into action! They will begin the challenge by reading a short backstory that sets up the escape room challenge. Students awaken in a windowless room, suffering from amnesia, with only a phone and a tablet present; unable to recall any details from their past, they must solve a puzzle within the Exit Strategy app on the tablet to unlock the phone, escape the room, and uncover the mystery surrounding their situation.

➡️ Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style rhetorical appeals challenge, students must read an original short story and read three passages and find examples of ethos, pathos, and logos to reveal a hidden passphrase to become a secret agent!

How This Digital Ethos, Pathos, Logos Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the rhetorical appeals lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about the following appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos with examples. It will also introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
• Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the ethos, pathos, and logos activity challenge.
• Once you have taught students about the different rhetorical appeals and read the story, students are ready to try the digital reading challenge!
• When students find the answer, you can share the conclusion slides to wrap up the story.

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