Unit 1: Foundation

Unit Handouts

• Clockwork Orange Text and complete Clockwork Orange Code Breaking Activity

• Introduce Danielle Allen's “Prologue” to her book Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality.

• Rhetorical Triangle and SOAPSTone

• Rhetorical Triangle and SOAPSTone for Allen's Prologue

• "Learning the Grammar of Animacy" from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

• Discussion of "Learning the Grammar of Animacy"

• Introduce Précis  Writing,  Précis Template, Precis Worksheet and Précis Rubric

• Appeals and Evidence

• Rhetorical Analysis of Election Ads

•  "Facebook Feminism" by Susan Faludi

•  Practice Visual Analysis

• Propaganda Slides, Propaganda Definitions, and Propaganda Analysis Practice

• Trump's Speech on "Patriotic Education"

• Trump and "Patriotic Education" Discussion

• Rhetorical Analysis Essay Guide and Rhetorical Analysis Essay AP Rubric

• Rhetorical Analysis Essay Practice of Trump's "Patriotic Education" Speech

• Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" speech and Audio of his speech

• Read and annotate "Pale Blue Dot" by Dream Theater

•  Kehinde Wiley Exhibit Discussion Slides

• “Kehinde Wiley and the Art of Revering Our Dead” By Hodari B. Davis

• Tone Lesson:  Mad World (lyrics), Version: Gary Jules, Version: Original Tears for Fears, Version: Pantene Commercial

• "The Puny Power of 'Woke Capitalism'" by Lydia Polygreen and Discussion

• “Women Know Exactly What They’re Doing When They Use ‘Weak Language’” by Adam Grant

• Modes and Modes Definitions

• Modes Activity (Viewable by all)