AP Language August 24-28
Monday, August 24, 2015
College Board Expectations:
-Develop critical literacy
-Facilitate informed citizenship
EQ: What is rhetoric?
Target: The students will begin developing an understanding of rhetorical definitions, purposes, and strategies.
Activator:
TPS: Rhetorical triangle for political cartoon
Teaching Strategies:
-Brief Keynote lecture about visual rhetoric
-Visual rhetoric in the media – various hashtags and other recent elements
-Visual rhetoric assignment
Summarizer:
Summarize the importance of visual rhetoric. How is it both more and less effective than spoken or written rhetoric?
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
College Board Expectations:
-Develop critical literacy
-Facilitate informed citizenship
EQ: What is rhetoric?
Target: The students will begin developing an understanding of rhetorical definitions, purposes, and strategies.
Activator:
Quickwrite: Explain context and purpose
Teaching Strategies:
-Students will continue to AirPlay responses to political cartoons from Monday.
-Discuss rhetorical triangle for each cartoon, emphasizing context and purpose.
Summarizer:
TOD: Final comments from today
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
College Board Expectations:
-Develop critical literacy
-Facilitate informed citizenship
EQ: What is rhetoric?
Target: The students will begin developing an understanding of rhetorical definitions, purposes, and strategies.
Activator:
Partners: Try to break the article “Not By Math Alone” into sections
Teaching Strategies:
-Discuss student responses from activator
-Direct Instruction: Brief Keynote lecture on Classical Model of arrangement.
-Partners: Students will return to the article and apply the Classical Model to determine sections
Summarizer:
Airplay student responses
Thursday, August 27, 2015
College Board Expectations:
-Develop critical literacy
-Facilitate informed citizenship
EQ: What is rhetoric?
Target: The students will begin developing an understanding of rhetorical definitions, purposes, and strategies.
Activator:
Airplay two more student political cartoon responses from Monday
Teaching Strategies:
-Discuss format of purpose statements
-Develop purpose statements for “Not By Math Alone”
-Review Classical Arrangement; discuss final organizational decisions based on this organizational model
Summarizer:
Watch TED Talk: “Try Something New for 30 Days” (Matt Cutts) and develop purpose statment