Unit+Materials

This unit requires quite a few materials. Some of those materials are not available digitally. Some of the materials will be different depending on the individual teacher as it is important to use current events and examples that are meaningful to the teacher. For the materials that CAN be accessed digitally, I will be providing links for downloading and accessing those materials here.
 * __ Text Analysis with the Rhetorical Triangle __** **// Teacher Resources and Materials //**


 * __NOTE__:** Our school does block YouTube; however, I have discovered a way to record YouTube videos using the video recorder feature of ActivStudio (the software that works with our Promethean Boards). I have recorded and saved the YouTube videos that I link to on this page. The files are too large to upload here, so I have saved the videos to the "Shared Resources" destination on my school computer. They will be available to my colleagues at school as long as they are logged into the school wireless. Also, I have them available in a format that can be copied to a DVD if necessary.

__Introductory Materials__
__Unit Pretest Student Survey__ [|Download Teacher Questionnaire]
 * Preinstructional Strategy:** Student overview and open-ended pretest question. [[|Download JPG]] [[|Download PDF]]

__**Objective 1: Distinguish between summary and analysis.**__
**Teacher Resource/ Supplemental Reading:**
 * “Introduction: Analysis as ‘Undoing’” by D. Joliffe from College Board workshop materials 2011 [hard copy only]

[|Download Summary vs. Analysis graphic organizer]

**Examples to demonstrate the difference between summary and analysis:** @http://youtu.be/J2Pjudf0810
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This is a short video that shows highlights of commentary from both Republicans and Democrats after Michelle Obama's speech during the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Despite the fact that all of the newcasters and political analysts watched the same exact speech by Michelle Obama, they express different conclusions about the speech. They are analyzing. || @http://youtu.be/t0Tbn46g0YA
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This is a short video segment from ESPN College GameDay. The two commentators are analyzing the skills, previous performances, and statistics of two teams: LSU and Alabama. Despite the fact that the commentators are discussing the same exact two teams, they arrive at different conclusions. They are analyzing. || Roger Ebert gives //Footloose// __**1.5 stars**__. Read the review here. Richard Roeper gives //Footloose// a __**C**__. Watch the review here. Lisa Scwarzbaum of //Entertainment Weekly// gives //Footloose// an __**A-**__. Read the review here.
 * //Footloose// movie reviews:** Links to reviews of the 2011 remake of the 1984 film. These are examples of analysis.


 * //Footloose// Plot Synopsis (Summary) from IMDb.com**

Additional movie reviews at Rotten Tomatoes (choose "top critics" for the best-written critiques). Additional movie synopsis at IMDd.com, Internet Movie Database. Student Survey - intermediate evaluation of component 1

__**Objective 2: Explain Aristotle's rhetorical triangle**____**.**__

**Teacher Resource/ Supplemental Reading:**
 * “What Do Students Need to Know About Rhetoric?” by H. Roskelly from College Board workshop materials 2005 [hard copy only]
 * __The Language of Composition__: Chapter 1, “Key Elements of Rhetoric” pgs. 1-4 [hard copy only]

[|Download Rhetorical Triangle graphic organizer] Access a huge bank of political cartoons from //The Week Magazine// here.

Student Survey - intermediate evaluation of component 2

__**Objective 3: Examine the appeals used in rhetoric**____**.**__
**Teacher Resource/ Supplemental Reading:**
 * __The Language of Composition__: Chapter 1, “Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos” pgs 4-6 [hard copy only]
 * __everything’s an argument with readings__: Chapter 1, “Appealing to Audiences” pgs 33-35 [hard copy only]
 * "Rhetorical Devices" scan from S. Sarrett Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Summer Institute Materials. Download Here]

[|Download Rhetorical Appeals graphic organizer] Access a huge bank of political cartoons from //The Week Magazine// here

Student Survey - intermediate evaluation of component 3

__**Objective 4: Explain the impact of the rhetorical situation**____**.**__
Image for "the abandoned wallet" activity: [[|download the abandoned wallet JPG]] [[|download the abandoned wallet PDF]] [|Level of Language graphic organizer] Access a huge bank of political cartoons from //The Week Magazine// here Download the PDF Copy [|"Write THIS Story" Anecdote Ideas] and writing assignment instructions View CBS's Late Show with David Letterman Top Ten videos here. (These are great for demonstrating context.) View clips of Leno's monologues from NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (These are great for demonstrating context.) Download [|Context Changes Everything Writing Assignment] Student Survey - intermediate evaluation of component 4

__**Objective 5: Compose a written rhetorical analysis of nonfiction text**____**.**__
Access a huge bank of political cartoons from //The Week Magazine// here. //The Week Magazine//'s "The Best Advice From 2011's Commencement Speakers" [[|click here to download PDF]] click for link to web page]

Example Rhetorical Analysis of President Obama's Jobs Speech: Obama's Jobs Speech: Rhetorical Analysis by Carmine Gallo on //Forbes Magazine// web site.

Conan O'Brien's Dartmouth Commencement Speech transcript and video] COO of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg's Barnard College Commencement Speech transcript and video] Actor, Denzel Washington's University of Pennsylvania Commencement Speech transcript] and video] Author, John Franzen's Kenyon College Commencement Speech audio] and transcript] Actor, Tom Hanks' Yale University Commencement Speech video] and [transcript - still searching for a reliable transcript] Comedian, Fred Armisen's Oregon Episcopal School's Commencement Speech video] and [transcript - still searching for a reliable transcript] Comedian, Stephen Colbert's Northwestern University Commencement Speech transcript] and video]

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech [ transcript and video ] [|Download the Rubric for the Rhetorical Analysis Final Writing Assignment]

Student Survey - intermediate evaluation of component 5

__Concluding Materials__
Unit Post-test Student Survey