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10:002 or 10:003 Unit ~ The Myth of the Model Family
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Meter Maids Eat Their Young!We know that meter maids are secretly human: despite their bold civic crusade to enrich the City of Iowa City three dollars at a time, they’re really ordinary people. Like you and me, they’re occasionally able to be persuaded. In this exercise, you’re downtown (you figure out why). You come sprinting back to your car and find a fresh parking ticket. Laughing evilly just two cars away: the meter maid. Unlike most superheros with only one super power to rely on, you have four: logos, pathos, ethos, mythos. Write a short (1-2 minute) monologue in which you use one of those appeals to talk your way out of that parking ticket. Then write another monologue (again, 1-2 minutes) based on a different appeal, trying to talk your way out of a parking ticket. Value to you: It counts as a part of your grade. And really, what a great skill to build. Bring to class: your typed-up script.
Advertisers do this to you all the time: they make their product seem, maybe only for a few crucial moments, like something you really have to have. In this exercise, you have a chance to get in on this action. Pick some object you can bring to class as a prop. (Think of things with visual appeal here. Think also of things you can carry, things that aren’t perishable, things that are legal and legally yours.) Ideally, it’ll be something odd and totally unnecessary for our daily lives. Think about the four tools you have at your disposal: ethos, logos, pathos, mythos. Write a short (1-2 minute) monologue in which you use one of those appeals to sell us that object that we don’t really need. Then write another monologue (again, 1-2 minutes) based on a different appeal, to sell us that object that we don’t really need. Value to you: It counts as a part of your grade. Value to the marketplace and our nation’s economy: priceless. Bring to class: your typed-up script.
Your job is to advocate for what you believe should be the newest Olympic event. And you don’t need to confine yourself to the world of sports, either: wouldn’t the Olympics be more exciting if the events didn’t cater just to athletes? C’mon, how many people luge in their spare time? How come Diapering a Crabby Baby isn’t an Olympic event? You’re bound to be persuasive now that you have a handle on some key tools: ethos, logos, pathos, mythos. Write a short (1-2 minute) monologue in which you use one of those appeals to convince the IOC to add your event to the Winter Olympics. Then write another monologue (again, 1-2 minutes) based on a different appeal, again, convincing the IOC to add your event to the next Olympics. Value to you: It counts as a part of your grade. Value to the IOC and major networks: priceless. Bring to class: your typed-up script. |