Summarizing and Responding to Texts Effectively

Sample Lesson Plans

 

Designed by: Randy Gonzales

This lesson seeks to point out the significance of a text's original context and to guide students into identifying ways that context signals meaning, audience, and purpose.

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Designed by: Kent Quaney

The objective of this lesson is to help the students identify the strategies of rhetoric/inductive logic, the pitfalls of logical fallacies, and the presence of bias. This will be achieved by having the students critically respond to video commentary on a current controversial topic. 

Designed by: Allison Tharp

By asking students to persuade an audience before explaining the rhetorical situation, this activity proves that they know more about rhetoric than they think and use it on a daily basis. 

Designed by: Andrew Rhodes

This lesson helps students learn to tell the difference between rhetorical analysis and critical analysis by looking at many pieces of analysis and deciding if the analysis is rhetorical or critical.  

Designed by: Christina Rothenbeck

This in-class activity will familiarize students with analysis of a text by helping them to discuss its audience, context, and what rhetorical appeals it makes.