Rhetoric

Rhetoric

2019-2020 Academic Year
Holy Family Academy
Rhetoric

Course Description
Aristotle defines Rhetoric as the art of persuasion. This course helps students to be persuasive speakers by incorporating the principles of the rhetorical triad: ethos, pathos, logos. This is an active class wherein students deliver roughly one speech per week and develop the habits to be good communicators who are attentive to posture, pace, volume, emphasis, word choice, eye contact, hand gestures, and structure.  Students learn how to hook an audience, develop a line of reasoning, and end with an effective closer.