MORALS, VALUES, POLITICS MVP UNIT- Week One

MORALS, VALUES, POLITICSMVP UNIT- Week One “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.” ~Laurence Sterne AP Language and Composition Mrs. Whetstone

Language of Composition • IMC Schedule: • 1st Hour: 7:48 • 2nd Hour: 9:05 • 3rd Hour: 10:00 • 4th Hour: 11:35 • 5th Hour: 12:35

MVP Unit Review • Website review • Subunits: • Appeals (Logos, Pathos, Ethos) • Ethical Situations • Politics • Satire • Anti-Bullying • Documentary

Mentor Text • You are required to read a mentor- text along with this unit. • Your choice: must have embedded themes of all/either morals, values, politics. • Read at own pace, must have finished by December 13 • Read throughout unit in preparation for partner/class discussion

Values • Dictionary.com • N: beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (for or against something); “he has conservative values” • The rules by which we make decisions about right and wrong, should and shouldn’t, good and bad. • Tell us which are more or less important Excerpt from: “Values, morals and ethics” http://changingminds.org

Morals • Dictionary.com • N: motivation based on ideas of right and wrong • Have a greater social element to values and tend to have a very broad acceptance. Morals are far more about good and bad than other values. We thus judge others more strongly on morals than values. • A person can be described as immoral, yet there is no word for them when they do not follow values. (possibly be called a hypocrite) Excerpt from: “Values, morals and ethics” http://changingminds.org

“What Would You Do?”

“What Would You Do?” • What do you strongly value? • What keeps you to be a moral human being? • After viewing each clip, write the HONEST answer to “What would you do?” if you were truly a bystander in a situation such as this.

AGENDA Choice Reading Rhetorical Vocab: Word Play Appeals to Logos, Pathos, Ethos (p. 4-6) TED Talk: “Paul Zak: Trust, morality -- and oxytocin”

Wednesday, October 16 • Testing: 7:45- 9:40 • 1st hour..... 9:45-10:15 • 2nd hour....10:20-10:50 • 4th hour.....10:55-12:25 • 3rd hour.....12:30- 1:05 • 5th hour..... .1:10- 1:50 • 6th hour...... 1:55- 2:35 • SENIORS: Report to PAC at 8:30 for class meeting and group picture on football field

Appeals: Logos, Pathos, Ethos • Language of Composition (4-6) • Form three groups (each assigned an appeal) • ON POSTER: • What does it appeal to? • How does it do so? • Give an example.

Appeals to: • Effectiveness • Examples (found commonly in…) • Misc. Appeals to • Ethos • Character – to demonstrate credibility • Logos • Logic – to demonstrate reason • Pathos • Emotion – to demonstrate sensitivity

AGENDA “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” ~Mark Twain Finish Logos, Pathos, Ethos (LPE) “Trust, morality– and oxytocin” video and discussion

Appeals to: • Effectiveness • Examples (found commonly in…) • Misc. Appeals to • Ethos • Character – to demonstrate credibility • Logos • Logic – to demonstrate reason • Pathos • Emotion – to demonstrate sensitivity

TED Talk: • Paul Zak: • “Trust, morality -- and oxytocin” • What drives our desire to behave morally? Neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it "the moral molecule") is responsible for trust, empathy and other feelings that help build a stable society. • A pioneer in the field of neuroeconomics, Paul Zak is uncovering how the hormone oxytocin promotes trust, and proving that love is good for business.

Why You Should Listen to Him • What’s behind the human instinct to trust and to put each other’s well-being first? When you think about how much of the world works on a handshake or on holding a door open for somebody, why people cooperate is a huge question. Paul Zak researches oxytocin, a neuropeptide that affects our everyday social interactions and our ability to behave altruistically and cooperatively, applying his findings to the way we make decisions. A pioneer in a new field of study called neuroeconomics, Zak has demonstrated that oxytocin is responsible for a variety of virtuous behaviors in humans such as empathy, generosity and trust. Amazingly, he has also discovered that social networking triggers the same release of oxytocin in the brain -- meaning that e-connections are interpreted by the brain like in-person connections. • A professor at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California, Zak believes most humans are biologically wired to cooperate, but that business and economics ignore the biological foundations of human reciprocity, risking loss: when oxytocin levels are high in subjects, people’s generosity to strangers increases up to 80 percent; and countries with higher levels of trust – lower crime, better education – fare better economically. • He says: "Civilization is dependent on oxytocin. You can't live around people you don't know intimately unless you have something that says: Him I can trust, and this one I can't trust."

Logos Pathos LPE with Paul Zak (pg. 19 in Composition Book.) Ethos

TED Talk- Paul Zak • Finish video • Share evidence of logos, pathos, ethos

HOMEWORK • Read the letter written by Albert Einstein in 1936 • Explain how effective the letter was in terms of the rhetorical triangle and Einstein’s appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos • Follow “assignment” instructions

AGENDA Review Einstein Letter homework Classical Model “Not by Math Alone” Sandra Day O’Connor

Review Einstein Letter • Discussion: • How rhetorically effective did you find his letter? • How did it appeal to the purpose, speaker, subject? • Is there a better way that he could have structured his response, or do you think that it’s adequate?

“We Can Afford to Give Our Parents a Break” • Read this 2006 article, which appeared in the Washington Post on Mother’s Day • Pair/Share by discussing the key concepts in this article; include whether or not you agree with the author • Read page 6-9 to see how the author, Jody Heyman, appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos HOMEWORK!!

THE CLASSICAL MODEL Pg. 13-14 • Introduction or exordium • Narration or narratio • Confirmation or confirmatio • Refutation or refutatio • Conclusion or peroratio KNOW THESE LATIN TERMS! How is this model different from the formal model you have used for the persuasive essay? QUIZ on MONDAY! Know these Latin terms AND spelling!

SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR • Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is making a video game. Let’s all take a moment and let that sink in. OK, has your head stopped spinning yet? Good, because the news just gets more interesting from there. The game is an unconventional one; aimed at teaching seventh and eighth-graders lessons in basic civics. She has a pretty good reason for developing the game, noting that the “No Child Left Behind Act” has effectively ended basic civics education in schools. According to Justice O’Connor, “only one-third of Americans can name the three branches of government, but two-thirds can name a judge on American Idol” (posted June 8, 2008).

“Not by Math Alone” (2006) Sandra Day O’Connor Former Supreme Court Justice Roy Romer, Former Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District pages 14-16

Classical Model Element (Latin term) Textual Evidence (what it includes) “Not By Math Alone”Double-entry notes

AGENDA Choice Reading Friday! Prepare for quiz on Classical Model

“Ma and Pa Bakery” video • What are the issues at hand? • Consider the two sides of this situation. How do each try to justify? • What moral elements apply here?

Homework • Study and prepare for a quiz on the Classical Model • Find non-fiction piece that forces the reader to question their morals/ethics. • Due on TUESDAY for discussion

MORALS, VALUES, POLITICS MVP UNIT- Week One