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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.
Introducing They Say, I Say Lesson/Activity Plan
This lesson shows students the value of summarizing opposing arguments using the provided templates.
Skimming Lessons
Requiring only a doc cam and the junk from your backpack, this fun activity helps empower students to confidently tackle difficult readings.