Complete Unit for Rhetorical Analysis 9th and 10th grade focus

Complete Lesson Plan Documents (39 pages)

This is a complete four-week unit for Rhetorical Analysis, with bell ringers, quizzes, practices, formative assessments, and three versions of a summative assessment (with a Common Core-aligned rubric). This is indeed a complete unit that I've been teaching and refining for years. (I'll have some of my Animal Farm materials up at some point.)

This lesson is bundled with my "Rhetorical Analysis Complete Unit -- Slide Show" and also my "Build Your Own Nation! Learning Rhetorical Devices and Propaganda."

I pair this with Animal Farm during the two weeks leading into this unit. The "fan fiction" or imagined speeches I use for formatives and practice come from hypothetical situations in Animal Farm. However, the speeches stand on their own and don't require reading the novel as both the context and exigence are provided for each. While teaching the introductory paragraph and the first analysis body paragraph, I used MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, with a link to the recording of the speech on YouTube.

An extensive list of both Common Core standards and TEKS standards are listed on the final pages.