AP English III Unit 4

Big Idea:

Students will be able to explain the rhetorical effect of the passage/work in order to achieve the author’s rhetorical purpose.c

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

SC16 The AP teacher provides instruction and feedback on students’ writing assignments both before and after they revise their work that help the students establish an effective use of rhetoric including controlling tone and a voice appropriate to the writer’s audience.

Focus TEKS

SC14 The AP teacher provides instruction and feedback on students’ writing assignments, both before and after the students revise their work that help the students develop logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques to increase coherence. Such techniques may include traditional rhetorical structures, graphic organizers, and work on repetition, transitions, and emphasis.

Ongoing TEKS

SC3 The course requires students to write in informal contexts (e.g., imitation exercises, journal keeping, collaborative writing, and in-class responses) designed to help them become increasingly aware of themselves as writers and/or aware of the techniques employed by the writers they read.

SC7 The course requires nonfiction readings (e.g., essays, journalism, political writing, science writing, nature writing, autobiographies/biographies, diaries, history, criticism) that are selected to give students opportunities to explain an author’s use of rhetorical strategies or techniques. If fiction and poetry are also assigned, their main purpose should be to help students understand how various effects are achieved by writers’ linguistic and rhetorical choices.

SC15 The AP teacher provides instruction and feedback on students’ writing assignments both before and after they revise their work that help the students develop a balance of generalization and specific, illustrative detail

Learning Targets:

• Identify the rhetorical devices uses in the passage.
• Identify the effects of the rhetorical devices.
• Connect the effect of the rhetorical device to the author’s rhetorical purpose.
• Construct an outline to prove the effect of rhetoric on the author’s rhetorical purpose.
• Write a rhetorical analysis essay answering the effect of the rhetoric on the author’s rhetorical purpose.

Essential Questions:

• What is the author’s rhetorical purpose?
• What strategies does the author uses?
• What are the effects of the rhetoric on the author’s rhetorical purpose?

Extra Information:

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