English blog week of 3/23

This week I have worked on and finished my rough drafts for my pieces of rhetoric. One piece was an email to parents that told them about the importance of health and their kids. It is extremely important for parents to be invested in their childs health since all of the childs habits and behaviors will more than likely form from the parents. In my second piece of rhetoric I designed a poster that could be used to encourage kids to choose to be active rather than sitting inside playing video games. The poster uses two pictures of fat kids playing video games, and fit kids playing basketball having fun to show kids its more enjoyable and healthy to get out and play.

This past week in English class we discussed creating our two pieces or rhetoric. We were given many ideas to help us along with our process and given links to different online tools to assist us. For my project I am hoping to reach and inform parents and elementary school students. I think that kids at such a young age can have a hard time making decisions for themselves that are right and need parental guidance and discipline in order to stay healthy. My first idea for rhetoric is an informative text, possibly email, that will help teach parents about health and how they can better nourish their child and help prevent obesity and future unhealthy habits. My second piece will be something that is visually appealing to children. Kids at such a young age are very impressionable and I want to create something that makes it look cool to eat healthy and exercise.