AP English III Unit 7

Big Idea:

• Students will be able to analyze the success of a rhetorical transaction
• Students will be able to connect specific rhetorical effects of a passage in connection to the rhetorical purpose of the passage.
• Students will be able to connect the satiric effect of a passage in connection to the rhetorical purpose of a passage.

Student Expectations:

Priority 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.

SC5 The course requires students to produce one or more analytical writing assignments. Topics should be based on readings representing a wide variety of prose styles and genres and might include such topics as public policies, popular culture, and personal experiences.

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.

Ongoing 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.

Learning Targets:

• Analyze the effects of diction, tone, satire and their connection to the rhetorical purpose of a passage.
• 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?
• 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?

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