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.
This activity gets students to practice recognizing rhetorical moves in a piece of writing by analyzing the satirical open letter that birthed Pastafarianism.
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.
This activity would be an application of what the student’s should have learned while reading Grant-Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.”
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