April+12-13

=Essential Question: What are the possibilities and limitations of forgiveness? = =Titanic: = Visit the following website and read the article titled, "Main Points in Senate Titanic Report."

=Creative response: = On your blogs, answer the essential question. Pretend you are one of the passengers on the Titanic. If you are a woman, you may have been placed on a lifeboat and survived. If you were a man, you probably would have been left to sink with the ship. Think of the captian of the ship who pressed on with the trip even though he had been warned of iceburgs. Look at the officers who failed to warn passengers and only packed lifeboats to 1/2 capacity. Maybe even consider the survivors in the lifeboats who did not come back for the people drowning. Do you think it would have been possible to forgive these people in your final moments if you had been on the ship? Would forgiveness have been possible or limited for you in this situation?

Mini-Lesson: The Rhetorical Triangle
[|Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle] on [|Prezi]

Read and Gather Ideas
Read pg.39-43 aloud. Each person should have paper divided into 3 columns- ethos, pathos, and logos. As we read, students should jot down words, phrases, or statements that appeal to each column. (i.e. "I often gave them something to eat" (40). Ethos)

Columns:
*Note- Many statements or ideas may overlap. Some things may serve as more than one type of appeal.
 * Ethos- What gives the soldier credibility? Why should Simon not look at him as a monster?
 * Pathos- What is meant to draw an emotional response from the listener (in this case, the Jew the soldier is confiding in)?
 * Logos- How does the soldier logically explain his actions? Can you break down the reasoning?

=Homework: = Write your own LOT #4, and LOT #6 for homework. Read the remainder of the book and look for text to text connections and interesting facts you can mini-research. Check out my examples for clarity.

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