Teaching Genre with Adaptation
In this activity, students reflect on the concept of genre through a fun activity!
In this activity, students reflect on the concept of genre through a fun activity!
Use this musical marble machine video to help your students grasp the idea of the rhetorical situation.
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.
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.
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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