Peer Review (Lauren Poet)
Objective: Students will learn how to respond to criticism gracefully and learn the peer review can be an important part of the writing process. Performing peer reviews will allow students …
Confronting Bias / Rhetorical Listening (Lauren Poet)
Objective: After a quiz activity and guided discussion about recognizing various types of bias and representation, students will be prepared to collaborate in small groups to successfully compose a short …
Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis (Lauren Poet)
Objective: Students will understand the Rhetorical Analysis assignment and the shift from Op Ed to RA. Students will demonstrate an awareness of objective analysis by analyzing multiple rhetorical situations and …
Character and Emotion (Katie Johnson)
Lesson Prep Objective: Students will identify key strategies for developing character and will compare and contrast effective and ineffective appeals to emotion. By watching Serena Williams in a commercial and …
Narrowing Your Research Topic (Nate Wood)
Note: This is my way of instructing how to narrow a research question for the Conference Paper. Narrowing a research question is vital because writing a paper on a broad …
Introducing Genre (Nate Wood)
Note: This is how I teach genre. I typically teach genre the same day I introduce the opinion editorial assignment. So, the goal of this lesson is to help students …
Introducing GRAPE (Nate Wood)
(This is my general introduction to GRAPE. The goal of this lesson is for students to be able to label the ‘GRAPE’ of any rhetorical situation and to realize how …
Introducing Audience (Nate Wood)
(After I teach a broad overview of GRAPE, I spend roughly ½ lesson specifically focusing on Audience. I follow this lesson up another ½ lesson focusing on Genre, in which …
Logos: Claims, Reasons, and Assumptions (Lauren Poet)
Objective: Students will understand the power of claims, reasons, and assumptions by understanding what they are arguing and why they are arguing it. By working as a class, they will …
The Rhetorical Situation (GRAPE it, K?)
Objective: Students will understand the importance of the rhetorical situation and how to identify the rhetorical situation (GRAPE it, K?). Students will demonstrate understanding by re-assessing the rhetorical situation for …
