Magazine Cover

I have a love/hate relationship with Common Core so I decided to focus on the love side. I chose the magazine picture based on common core being more of a hands-on approach with our students and project based compared to book driven instruction. I wanted the magazine title to go with the common core and what better name than Education Today because that is what is place in our education system. I chose to make the title of the main article in bold because I wanted it to stick out to the readers. Common core is geared towards making our students better prepared for the future. The cover shows a classroom of kids working on different things. There are a group of students on the floor and some at different tables. It seems that they may be going through different stations. The students seem to be in elementary school and look like they are focusing on the different tasks. Looking at this cover I think that I used emotional appeals, loaded language, and plain folk as the three persuasive techniques. I used the emotional appeal by talking about children’s future and being successful. When parents or teachers see something that has children being successful written on it then they will want to read and see what it is about. Loaded language was used when it came to the new activities that were offered in the magazine for teachers to use in their classroom for free. I would say that the plain folk were used because it talks about what teachers think and how they think common core is beneficial. I think that when someone would look at this magazine and see that teachers were interviewed that they would look into it because teachers are supposed to know best for their classrooms.