CH GCE Portfolio

In my Humanities class, Rhetoric, we recently finished our third and final unit called Unity. In this unit, we furthered our knowledge of rhetoric and the impact it can have. We studied different situations where rhetoric has been used to inspire, unite, and bring change. We then focused on rhetorical devices. We studied different passages so that we could understand how these devices get used. For example, Common Sense by Thomas Paine was a pamphlet that continuously used rhetoric to persuade independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. For this AP, we had to create a piece of artwork that expresses an issue and brings together unity.  CH. "Collage." 2020. I am 17 years old and as a teenager, I can tell you that life is a mess right now. With all of life's ups and downs, it can often seem as if we are just moving through life with no real purpose or goal. In order to portray how I feel, I choose to create a collage. The words and pictures I used we...

In my Humanities class, Rhetoric, we recently finished our second unit. In this unit, we furthered our knowledge of rhetoric and the impact it can have. We studied different situations where rhetoric has been used. We focused on the literary devices used in rhetoric and how those devices have an impact on the words, their context, and the impact on the audience. We watched the vice presidential debate and studied rhetoric between now elect Vice President Kamal Harris and Vice President Mike Pence. We met with Ugo Okere, a man who was running on the ticket as a Socialist to be elected in Chicago ward 40. As a class, most of us met in-person to walk through and learn about the MLK Living Memorial in Marquette Park. To wrap up our second unit of Rhetoric, I was asked to write an Op-ed. I choose to write mine about Chicago, CPS, and the current struggles Covid-19 causes for students. In this op-ed, I included rhetoric to help appeal to the reader. I established logos by including three cit...

In my class called Art of Rhetoric, we studied how speech, presentation, and body language affects how people interpret a speaker. In order to make a rhetorical analysis, you must study the context, speaker, genre, occasion, and especially the audience. There are different rhetorical appeals too, that go into any rhetorical speech or situation. There are three kinds of rhetorical appeals. These are logos, which appeals to logic, ethos, appealing to the credibility of the speaker; trust, and finally pathos, which appeals to the emotions. For our Action Project, we had to create a speech for a candidate that was up for election in our government. I choose Dick Durbin because has been a senator for Illinois for some time now. He is currently up for reelection, so this video is based on how I think he should respond if someone asks him questions specific to gun violence. CH. "Rhetoric AP1." Youtube, 2020. Question: "You say you favor an “assault weapon” ban, but most murders...