CL 1/21

List 1: Animals (birds/parrots), fun animal adventures (rescuing animals or adventures with my bird sweetie), YouTube, art.

List 2: Personal feelings/emotions, politics, talking in front of a class in general (I am very shy).

Questions:

1. Johnson is trying to get his readers to accept that it isn’t always the specific thing we are doing or learning that is important but the skills that are learned in doing so.
2. He says that we do not focus on the specific traits of things that we do. He gives an example that when children are taught math class, almost all of them will not apply what they just learned in their life but instead will have a new way of thinking and more “tools” to use in life.
3. He could be using pathos to make people think about if they remembered the specific math question or way to play a game or if they remember the method of thinking they used.
4. Yes, I find this argument convincing because I have experienced this in my life and it is very logical.