In continuation of last week's session, I introduced Josie to Rhetoric by first defining the term as the art of persuasive speaking or writing. Expanding on this idea, I told Josie that there were three major types of appeals: logos, ethos, and pathos. Logos is the appeal to logic, ethos is author creditability, and pathos is the appeal to emotion. Explaining what each might look like in turn, I gave Josie examples of each appeal and asked her to remember one of the appeals that I used when introducing myself to her last week. Josie was quick on the draw, correctly naming ethos as the rhetorical device. Josie's reply was this: "You used Ethos when you told me that you have been studying English for 7 years and teaching it for 3." After a quick discussion of how this appeal to my own creditability persuaded Josie to believe and trust my advice on reading and writing, we watched a brief video on the Art of Persuasion. Josie and I then discussed how principles like reciprocity, creditability, and pathos are used everyday to sell an idea or product. We then moved on to a discussion of the rhetorical modes: description, narration, argumentation, classification and division, definition, cause/effect, compare and contrast, and process analysis, and example. Josie was familiar with each of these modes, which puts her in great shape for emulating these types of genres in her freshman college writing course. When we finished discussing the modes, we went on to read Dan Barry's "Chronicle of an American Execution." We "previewed" the textual details by reading the accompanying author biography. In this bio, it was hinted that this essay was an objective account of a legal execution in Tennessee. Given the author's background (New York Times writer, covered stories like 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, etc.), I asked Josie to consider this: can an author with these credentials write an objective account of capital punishment? In the end, Josie concluded no. To inform our reading then, Josie was asked to look for moments when the author revealed his stance on the issue of capital punishment, as well as moments the appeals logos, ethos, and pathos are used. Josie and I had a great discussion about this essay, and Josie's intellectual curiosity was at its peak during the lesson.