Unit 1: Skill 1.A Video 1: In this video, we will learn about rhetoric and the rhetorical situation.

Unit 1: Skill 1.A Video 2: In this video, we will learn about audience and its relation to the rhetorical situation. Link to Patrick Henry Speech Referenced in Video 

Unit 1: Skills 1.A Video 3: In this video, we will learn about analyzing rhetoric and how rhetoric is effective for specific audiences.

Unit 1: Skill 3.A Video 1: In this video, we will learn about the basic components of an argument.

Unit 1: Skill 3.A Video 2: In this video, we will learn about the types of evidence and how writers use evidence to support an argument.

Unit 1: Skills 3.A Video 3: In this video, we will learn about how to introduce and embed quoted, paraphrased, or summarized information from outside sources. 

Unit 1: Skill 4.A Video 1: In this video, we will learn about how to construct an effective claim that requires evidence.

Unit 1: Skill 4.A Video 2: In this video, we will learn about effectively embedding evidence to support a claim.

Unit 2: Skill 1.B Video 1: In this video, we will have an initial discussion about the importance of a writer's consideration of audience and ways to determine the writer's assumptions about an audience.

Unit 2: Skill 1.B.Video 2: In this video, we will focus on opportunities to analyze an author's understanding of an audience of one, as with direct correspondence (e.g., letters).

Unit 2: Skills 1.B Video 3: In this video, we will focus on a text with a wider audience and address how that author understands and appeals to that wider audience.

Unit 2: Skill 2.B Video 1: In this video, we will discuss various ways we know or can get to know an audience and ways to show that knowledge through appeals.

Unit 2: Skill 2.B Video 2: In this video, we will focus on understanding and addressing an audience that may easily agree with or support the message.

Unit 2: Skill 2.B Video 3: In this video, we will focus on understanding and addressing an audience that may oppose the message.

Unit 2: Skill 3.A Video 1: In this video, we will focus on how writers use evidence strategically to illustrate, set a mood, exemplify, or amplify a point.

Unit 2: Skill 3.A Video 2: In this video, we will focus on how evidence strengthens the validity and reasoning of an argument, relates to an audience's emotions and values, and increases a writer's credibility.

Unit 2: Skills 3.A Video 3: In this video, we will focus on how evidence that is apt and sufficient in quality and quantity improves the effectiveness of an argument.

Unit 2: Skill 4.A Video 1: In this video, we will focus on how to use evidence strategically to illustrate, set a mood, exemplify, or amplify a point.

Unit 2: Skill 4.A Video 2: In this video, we will focus on how to use evidence that strengthens the validity and reasoning of an argument, relates to an audience's emotions and values, and increases credibility.

Unit 2: Skill 4.A Video 3: In this video, we will focus on how to use evidence that is apt and sufficient in quality and quantity to improve the effectiveness of an argument.

Unit 2: Skill 3.B Video 1: In this video, we will discuss ways that a thesis may indicate structure (and build on prior teaching of this topic).

Unit 2: Skill 3.B Video 2: In this video, we will highlight writers focusing their arguments, encourage anticipation of coming evidence, and look at overall structure.

Unit 2: Skill 3.B Video 3: In this video, we will practice identifying the thesis of an excerpt and discussing the argument's structure.

Unit 2: Skill 4.B Video 1: In this video, we will focus on the difference between an explicit and implicit thesis statement that contains an overarching claim and that requires evidence.

Unit 2: Skill 4.B Video 2: In this video, we will focus on how to write an explicit and implicit thesis that contains an overarching claim that requires evidence.

Unit 3: Skill 3.A Video 1: In this video, we will go over guidance on the introduction of evidence in support of a claim.

Unit 3: Skill 3.A Video 2: In this video, we will discuss the idea of line of reasoning while connecting commentary to evidence as a means of strengthening a claim.

Unit 3: Skill 4.A Video 1: In this video, we will discuss the format, goals, and approaches to the synthesis prompt and talk about the use of claims and evidence within that prompt style.

Unit 3: Skill 4.A Video 2: In this video, we will preview some synthesis tasks and broaden the use of claims and evidence to other prompt types and classroom writing activities.

Unit 3: Skill 4.A Video 3: In this video, we will focus on acknowledging, crediting, and generally using outside sources to support an original claim.

Unit 3: Skill 5.A Video 1: In this video, we will focus on the concept of a line of reasoning and some ways we may see a line of reasoning unfold in a work and connect to an overall focus.

Unit 3: Skill 5.A Video 2: In this video, we will look at the overall scheme of a speech and highlight indicators of one type of line of reasoning.

Unit 3: Skill 5.A Video 3: In this video, we will practice determining line of reasoning and tracking it throughout a short, complex piece.

Unit 3: Skill 6.A Video 1: In this video, we will focus on choosing good evidence as the foundation of a strong argument.

Unit 3: Skill 6.A Video 2: In this video, we will focus on developing meaningful and appropriate commentary for the synthesis free-response question.

Unit 3: Skill 6.A Video 3: In this video, we will focus on developing meaningful and appropriate commentary for the rhetorical analysis free-response question.

Unit 3: Skill 5.C Video 1: In this video, we will look at the various ways writers organize an argument to achieve their purpose.

Unit 3: Skill 5.C Video 2: In this video, we will consider identifiable patterns of development common in most arguments.

Unit 3: Skill 5.C Video 3: In this video, we will focus on the close reading of an argument and practice recognizing the connection between organization and purpose.

Unit 3: Skill 6.C Video 1: In this video, we will focus on how to employ definition as a method of development to advance an argument.

Unit 3: Skill 6.C Video 2: In this video, we will focus on how to employ cause-and-effect and compare-contrast as methods of development to advance an argument.

Unit 3: Skill 6.C Video 3: In this video, we will focus on description and narration as methods of development to advance an argument.