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