Reflection Setion: The little girl

 Text title: The little girl

Text type: Novel

Text creator: Unknown - This is because we've only read an extract from the novel.

Text purpose: To motivate people to be an individual and follow their dreams.

Date: 06/08/2021

Summary:

The story has a father that has 4 daughters and it is viewed on one of his daughters named Jo March. Whoever, in their society women, are expected to do lady stuff such as, cleaning, making tea and cooking dinner. Jo March was different, she didn't give up on her dreams. So she decided to write a story and send it to a big competition. She kept it a secret from anyone else before renouncing what she has done. When she was about to give up, a letter came up and said that she has won the competition. She was shocked. She excitedly showed everyone the delightful news. Even her mother was happy. Whoever, her father expected her to do better despite winning the competition. Eventually, at the end of the story, she would become a book writer.

Critical Literacy Questions:

Why are we reading this text?

- Our class studied this text because it had many extensive vocabularies and was written like in the olden days. Also to help us understand more complicated written texts. For instance, I know new words such as adequate, linguistic and stupendous. Adequate means acceptable in amount, linguistic means relating to language, and stupendous meansextremely impressive.

Pathos, Logos, and Ethos

 This week we are starting to study the world of persuasive language features. Therefore, today we are learning what is Pathos, Logos, and Ethos. 

Pathos - Having the feature to recall the audience's emotions. For example, many advertisements use pathos by having an adorable animal drink their brand/product. This shows pathos because it is relating to the customer's feeling through having a cute animal in the advertisement.

Logos - In other words "appeal to logic". It is a way of convincing the audience through facts and reasonings. For instance, This world is suffering from a global pandemic since carbon emissions have been increasing fast throughout the years. This shows logos by having facts backing it up.

Ethos - Ethos means getting the audience's trust. For example, if the text doesn't show any credibility the audience would not reside towards that text. Ethos is a way to persuade the audience that they can trust your side of the argument and have the authority to do so. For instance, As the president, I am qualified to say that this would be our best course of action towards the military decrement.

Blog questions

What are we doing?

- In this blog post, we are studying what pathos, logos, and ethos mean.

Why are we doing it?

- We are studying this because this will help us with our current assessment.

What questions do I have?

- I would like a more refined definition of ethos because I do not quite understand the meaning still.