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The Rhetorical Marble Machine

by Dana Blair | Aug 22, 2019 | Composition Concepts, Quick Tips

Use this musical marble machine video to help your students grasp the idea of the rhetorical situation.

Questions on Grant-Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.”

by Dana Blair | Mar 28, 2019 | Composition Concepts, Quick Tips

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”

by Dana Blair | Mar 28, 2019 | Composition Concepts, Quick Tips

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.

Analyzing the Rhetoric of Commercials Using Grant-Davie

by Dana Blair | Mar 28, 2019 | Composition Concepts, Quick Tips

This activity would be an application of what the student’s should have learned while reading Grant-Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.”

Skimming Lessons

by Dana Blair | Mar 7, 2019 | Composition Concepts, Quick Tips

Requiring only a doc cam and the junk from your backpack, this fun activity helps empower students to confidently tackle difficult readings.

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