Intro to Rhetoric & the Course

Essential Question:

How do American authors use language and rhetorical choices to convey their message? How can we, as writers, use language and rhetorical choices to convey our message?

Portrait of a Graduate:

Critical Thinking

Communication

Inquiry Question:

How do writers use rhetorical situations, choices, and language to evoke responses from their audiences and achieve their purpose?

Student Outcomes:

Students will learn the vocabulary of rhetoric..
Students will be able to identify and analyze rhetorical strategies, choices, and devices that writers use.
Students will be able to explain how writers’ stylistic choices contribute to the purpose of an argument.
Students will be able to identify the reasoning, organization, and development of an argument.
Students will be able to craft an argument that synthesizes evidence from selected sources.

Skills Demonstrated:

Rhetorical analysis
Writing arguments
Imitation of writer's styles
Vocabulary

Standards:

Additional Skills:

Resources:

Bush’s 9/11 Address to the Nation; “Forward from this Moment” - Leonard Pitts; Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address; Independence Day: President’s Speech; The Lord of the Rings Two Towers: Sam’s Speech to Frodo; Excerpts from The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Greene; Judge Ketanji Jackson Acceptance Speech; Lou Gehrig’s “Farewell to Baseball”; Patrick Henry’s Speech to the Virginia Convention; Kennedy’s Inaugural; Zelensky’s Speech to Congress; Killer Mike’s “It’s Your Duty Not to Burn Your House Down” Speech.

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