In-Class Activities
Invention
Reading-Responses and Study Questions- Iraq War Reading
- Maus I and II Study Questions
- Michael Moore: "Home of the Whopper"
- Rhetoric in the Media Study Questions
- Richard Rodriguez: "Hunger of Memory"
- Amy Tan: "Mother Tongue"
- Satire Study Questions
- Toni Morrison: "Recitatif"
- Ray Bradbury: "The Veldt"
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper"
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown"
Grammar
- Accurate, Vivid Words
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves
- Grammar/Style Presentations
- Punctuation Practice
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Run-On Sentences
Revision
- Revision Worksheet
- Post Outline
- Moving Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay
- Thesis Revision
- Revision Exercises
- Explicit versus Implicit
Miscellaneous
- Finding Focus
- Orwell/Bloated Language
- Reading Student Essays
- Using Rhetoric in Your Writing
- Rhetoric Class Exercise
- Sample Cover Letter Exercise
- Supporting Generalizations
- Using Examples
- Writing a Strong Thesis Statement
- Thesis Statement Activity
- Writer versus Reader-Based Prose
- Sorority Life Activity
- Using Sources
- Integrating Sources
- Summarizing
- Quoting and Paraphrasing
- Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
- Ethos/Pathos - Love Letters
- Advertisements and the Rhetorical Triangle