The Rhetorical Marble Machine
Use this musical marble machine video to help your students grasp the idea of the rhetorical situation.
Emoji Lesson Plan for MultiModal Revision
This in-class assignment asks students to revise the plot of a film into emoji code. Emphasis can be placed on revision practices, multimodal texts, the variety of Englishes available to rhetors depending on their cultures and contexts, or all three simultaneously.
εύρηκα!: How I Utilized Classical Myth to Help Explain Audience: Lesson Plan
To help students understand the difference between a popular, generalized media source and an academic/original source, I presented students with 3 different forms of the same myth of Pandora. By discussing each of the sources, all of them leading to a collective and informational Ted Talk on the myth, students were able to come to the conclusion of why the audience is important to writing and how expertise affects the way information is delivered.
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.
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