WHAT TO POST TO THE CLASS BLOG ON WEDNESDAY
You should come to class on Wednesday having already read the essay “Demon in the Freezer.” You will have some time in your groups to talk about the essay. You must each post (not as a group, but individually) between 300 and 500 words by the end of class on the questions below.
 
1.Get into your small groups in class. Have the essay and any notes you have from reading the essay ready to work with. 

2.In your small groups, locate the following sources of information in the essay:

• Locate a place in the essay where the author is using historical information to help make his argument
• Locate a place in the essay where the author is using scientific research to help make his argument
• Locate a place in the essay where the author is using an expert to help make his argument

 
3.As a group, discuss what you find and try to answer this question for each of the three kinds of information: How does this particular kind of information (source) help this writer make his argument, and how would the argument be weaker if that information wasn’t there? 

4. Now that you’ve completed the group work, write and post your 300 to 500 words on our class blog. Using the discussion you’ve had with your groupmates, write about the following:

• What is the thesis of this essay?
• Where and how does the writer use logos (information) to prove that thesis?
• Where and how does the writer use ethos (credibility or expertise) to prove that thesis?
• Where and how does the writer use  pathos (emotion) to prove that thesis?

 
You have the full hour to complete this work. Folks who don’t post will not be allowed to make up this reading response. That will make it numerically impossible to earn a grade of “B” for the reading response assignment.