Ethos Pathos Logos

After considering the information in this week’s instructor guidance and readings, I understand ethos, pathos, and egos to be…Ethos (ethics) is convincing someone of the character or the credibility of the writer in order to engage an audience on a particular topic such as myself presenting the information ( i.e. African American and Homeschooling). Next, pathos (emotion) is a held beliefs or way of convincing an audience of the argument to draw emotion into the subject matter. Lastly, logos (logic) is a way of persuading an audience with claims, evidence, and facts to support the subject matter in an argument to an audience.

Revised Thesis Statement:
• African American parents’ should educate their children at home rather than to attend to traditional school because of the poor quality of education,

lack of curriculum, school system’s labeling, violence, and institutional racism.

Claim #1:
• One critical factor is racism.

A collection of statements edited by Llewellyn (1996) of 15 African American homeschooling families, mentions that some of them “are tired of the racist, sexists propaganda that masquerades as truth in history textbooks”(p.15)

Claim #2:
• It is not surprising that racism plays a significant role in the decision of African American parents to homeschool their own children. Especially, when traditional schools institution displays their racism through their own White teachers’ negative attitudes and behaviors toward Black children, then disproportionate placement of Black children into special education classes, and disproportionate number of African American children targeted for punishment in schools.

• Counterargument & Rebuttal:
• Widespread White teachers’ in the traditional school's institution have denied being racist, insisting instead that they are “colorblind”. In other words, these teachers do not see color but see only the individual child they are teaching.
• Few ideas I would share for my rebuttal against this counterargument is racist mental attitude and racist stereotypes towards African

American

I developed these claims by the research I have already conducted through researching on my topic. In the library, I came across articles that were written about African American wanting to join the movement on homeschooling. In fact, watching the news, reading social media feeds, reading blogs, and other media that sparked an idea to write about this topic. Even though there is not much research on this topic, however, I will try to draw out real-life scenario and emotion into my paper.

I revised my thesis statement entirely base on the research I have found on African American families wanting to join the homeschooling movement with other families. Because every writer has written about homeschooling versus traditional schools or pro versus cons on homeschooling. Therefore, I decide to go a different route on the topic of African American families should homeschool their children rather for them attend to traditional schools that lack key factors an adolescent to achieve success in life.

After reading the course materials, I have no questions about my research, claims. But I do need to work on my counterargument, rebuttal, and thesis statements. However, if my classmates have any questions or confusion about expanding their own topic on homeschooling please send a message so we can help each other throughout this week. Also, please give me any suggestion how to improve my academic paper.

References

Mazama, A., & Lundy, G. (2012). African American Homeschooling as Racial Protectionism. Journal Of Black Studies, 43(7), 723. doi:10.1177/0021934712457042