Superfoods Persuasive Pamphlet - Ethos Logos Pathos Analysis + Research Writing

Are Superfoods real or a total myth? This persuasive pamphlet will have your students HOOKED. They'll analyze rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, pathos) in the nonfiction article. This makes an excellent high school reading comprehension activity.

Your high school reading comprehension resource includes:

✅ "Can Goji Berries Save the World?" persuasive article (pamphlet)

✅ Analyzing Rhetorical Appeals (ethos, logos, pathos) Worksheet

✅ Food Beliefs Persuasive Pamphlet Project

After reading the nonfiction passage, students analyze rhetorical appeals. Then, alone or in groups, they write their own persuasive pamphlet about food beliefs or another topic.

Reading Comprehension Passage versions:

• Persuasive Pamphlet (color)
• Persuasive Pamphlet (black & white)
• Persuasive Article (color) - great for viewing on devices!
• Persuasive Article (black & white)

Project Materials:

1. Editable brainstorming worksheet
2. Editable analytic & holistic rubrics
3. Editable student reflection sheet
4. Student Example (mid-range work, so students can critique it)

Hint: If you're concerned about triggering students with eating disorders, the research activity works with ANY persuasive topic. All of your project materials are 100% editable.

More about the high school reading comprehension passage:

This is a 550-word passage.

A free online readability checker scored the article like this. This should be used as a general guideline only.

Flesch Reading Ease score: 60.1

Gunning Fog: 11.3

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 8.2

The Coleman-Liau Index: 12

The SMOG Index: 8.7

Automated Readability Index: 9.1

Linsear Write Formula : 8

I recommend this article for 9th and 10th-graders.

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About Your Resource:

Your resource contains a PDF of the Teacher’s Guide, article, and worksheets. Your project materials are also 100% editable in PowerPoint or a clone (like OpenOffice). Please email me if you have any questions! :)

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