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Project WhistleStop "Show Me" Learning Lesson: Rhetorical
Devices in a Primary Source
Title: Rhetorical Devices in a Primary Source
Teacher: Gaye Sharp
School: Lee's Summit High School
Grade Focus: Middle grades and up
Time Frame: 2 50-minute class periods
Show Me Standard
| Content Standards | CA 5 | comprehending and evaluating the content and artistic aspects of oral and visual presentations |
| Performance Standards | 1.5 | comprehend and evaluate written, visual and oral presentations and works |
Related Materials:
Introduction: Primary sources are the original words of a writer or
speaker (e.g. novel, speech, report, poem, play, film, television program, original
design, short story, computer program,autobiography, or interview). Rhetorical
devices are techniques used to present facts and ideas in clear, convincing,
and attractive language. Students can evaluate the effectiveness of a primary
source by learning to identify rhetorical devices.
Goal or Objective: Analyze a primary source ("I Have a Dream"
speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) by identifying and explaining his use
of two specific rhetorical devices. Create a primary source that refers to rhetorical
devices in Dr. King's speech.
Procedure:
DAY 1 Students will find definitions of primary source, rhetorical device, allusion, and repetition. Students could look for definitions on Intemet sites or by using textual materials in a classroom (Google.com provided many sites about rhetorical devices on a wide range of levels).After the research/defining time period, students share what they learned in a class discussion. Divide into small groups where students will brainstorm and develop graphic organizers to display examples of each definition. Have students share their organizers, correcting any misconceptions that may occur.
DAY 2 Briefly review definitions and examples discussed in previous
class session. Provide copies of the "I Have a Dream" speech for students
to follow along with as you listen to and watch a video presentation of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. giving his famous speech. Have students return to small
groups from previous class to discuss specific rhetorical devices they heard
in this primary source.
Assessment: Student creation of a primary source which refers to and
comments on arhetorical device from Dr. King's speech AND open-ended constructed
response questions with scoring guides. See attached.
Resources and Technology Used: Internet sites or textual materials
for research and definitions, copies of a primary source, video presentation
of a primary source (MLK, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech).
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