Rhetorical Analysis – Open Letter
This activity gets students to practice recognizing rhetorical moves in a piece of writing by analyzing the satirical open letter that birthed Pastafarianism.
Questions on Grant-Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.”
I used the questions in this activity as a way of having students read in class Grant-Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.” It was very helpful in getting students engaged with the reading while formulating the anwers to these questions, which I asked at the end of the activity to corroborate that they’d done it.
Lesson Plan to Help Students Understand Grant Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and their Constituents”
This lesson plan allows for students to think of the rhetorical situation as a compilation of individual sections through group work and stations around the room.
Lesson Plan: Teaching Field Notes
This activity is meant to help students take meaningful field notes.
Analyzing the Rhetoric of Commercials Using Grant-Davie
This activity would be an application of what the student’s should have learned while reading Grant-Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.”
Teaching “Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language” by M. Rose
Objective: English 1023 students will read “Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language” by M. Rose and gain awareness of the explicit and implicit writing rules and assess their utility.
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