Rhetoric 1: The Art of Persuasion

In Rhetoric I, students study and analyze speeches and essays of the past. They will critically analyze persuasive discourses by the “greats” and “not-so-greats” from all ages, while developing and applying a Biblical worldview to their reading. This is also an advanced writing class that covers several different types of writing, such as persuasive, compare/contrast, research, literary analysis, the college essay and more. Literature will be selected from the Medieval/Early Modern time period to tie in with the history course and the ideas being studied in Biblical Worldview III.