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ENG11A: AMERICAN RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION

course overview

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Lesson Reading Skill Reading Selections Close Reading WritingSpeaking Listening Viewing Presenting

Language Skill

1 Reading a Primary Source - historical context, first-person narrative

from La Relacion Cabeza de Vaca

from The General History of Virginia John Smith

Review: Identify the Main Idea

Duty, Honor, Country

General Douglas MacArthur

Pretest Prompt: Activism is defined as the efforts to promote, impede, or direct a social, political, economic, or environmental change. Choose either an individual activist or an activist group and evaluate the impact the individual or group has had on the policy and procedures, laws, or attitudes of American society.

DOL Parts of Speech-noun, pronoun, verb

Unit 1 - Nationalism


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2 Analyze Text Structure and Argument preamble, fore word, declaration, list, conclusion: argument, claim, support, counterarguments, counterclaims

“The Declaration of Independence”

“The Federalist Papers No. 57”

Review: Describe the Organization

Duty, Honor, Country General Douglas MacArthur

Writing Workshop

• Narrative Nonfiction

• Question 1:

Create a timeline of events in your life. Be sure to include the events that have been most important to you and explain why they were important.

Create a speech: Speaking about the right to rule.

DOL Parts of Speech-noun, pronoun, verb

Determine Word Meaning Using dictionary, thesaurus, and other reference material to verify the meaning of multiple meaning words.

3 Audience and Form Analyzing an Author’s Belief

Audience, form: speech, proclamation, address

“Gettysburg Address” Abraham Lincoln

“Emancipation Proclamation” Abraham Lincoln

“Farewell Address to the Nation” Ronald Reagan

Review: Author’s Purpose


Writing Workshop


• Question 2

Building on you timeline from lesson 2, write your life story in under twenty minutes.

View: Analyze a representation of a historical photo of Abraham Lincoln after giving the Gettysburg Address.

DOL Parts of speech interjection preposition, conjunction

Use Language Effectively rhetorical devices: repetition- mesodiplosis, conduplicatio, diaphora


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4 Author’s Purpose/POV - RI6style and voice, tone content

“What Does ‘American’ Actually Mean?” Karina Martinez-Carter

“What does it Mean to be an American?” William McKenzie

Review: Making Connections


Writing Workshop


• Question 3

Think of a time in your life when you made the biggest change as a person. When was that time? What were the changes?

Listen: Listen to the patriotic marches of John Philip Sousa and evaluate tones for message.

DOL Making Subject and Verb Agree

Add Necessary Details prepositional phrases

5 Skills Review Unit 1 Review

Test Prep: “Defense of the Constitution” John Adams

from the Boston Tea Party George Hewes

Review: Synthesizing Ideas


Writing Workshop


• Question 4

Project your timeline into the future and write about a time in your life when you expect to make the greatest changes. Base this on your plans and expectations for the future.

END OF UNIT REVIEW DOL making subject and verb agree with compound subjects

Language Skills Review


course overview


Unit 2 - Classism


Language Skill

6 Characteristics of Autobiography

Make Inferences about an Author - First Person POV, dual perspective, significant moments (memoir)

from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin

50 Ways to Fix Your Life Carolyn Kleiner Butler

Practice: Identify the Main Idea

Martin Luther King, Jr. He Showed Us the Way Cesar Chavez

Writing Workshop

• Persuasive Writing

• Brainstorming

Create: Book of Virtues

View: Video “A History of Social Classes”

DOL Making pronouns and antecedents agree

Use cognates from different languages - Cognates and Etymology

7 Using a Critical Lens - Literary, Historical, Cultural, and Biographical, social, psychological, political, philosophical/moral Lens

From On the Trail of the Immigrant Edward A. Steiner

from The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

Practice: Describe the Organization


Writing Workshop


• Planning and Outlining

Listen: Video “F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream.”

Video “Novel Reflections on the American Dream”

DOL Using regular and irregular verbs

Clarify Word Meaning Context Clues/Using Reference Materials


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8 Interpreting allegorical meaning - Allegory, personification, parables, (fables), Dialogue 1162

from Our Town Thornton Wilder

from Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller

Practice: Author’s Purpose


Writing Workshop


• Rough Draft

View: Videos: “Our Town Character Studies.”

“Death of a Salesman Play Scene.”

Optional: Death of a Salesman entire play

DOL Using Correct Verb Tense

Write Concisely Reflexive, intensive, and possessive pronouns and clear pronoun reference

9 Identify Central Ideas - Analyze development of theme

“Racism and Classism are Alive and Deadly” Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese

The Distribution of Household Income and the Middle Class Linda Levine

Shame, School Lunch, and Passing Lita Kurth

Practice: Making Connections


Writing Workshop


• Revising

Research: Class in America Yesterday and Today

DOL Using Active and Passive Voice

Improve Sentence Flow Agreement with compound subjects and collective nouns prepositional phrases


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10 Skills Review – Unit 2 Review

“A Call Loan” O. Henry

“The Next Frontier” S.C. Gwynne

Practice: Synthesizing Ideas


Writing Workshop


• Simple Essay

END OF UNIT REVIEW DOL Using Personal Pronouns in Nominative Case


Unit 3 - Racism


Language Skill

11 Determining Author’s Purpose and Style Author’s purpose, rhetorical devices: paradox, repetition

“My Dungeon Shook” James Baldwin

“Speech to the American Equal Rights Association” Sojourner Truth

Writing Workshop

• Literary Analysis (Nonfiction)

• Writing Process

Research what life was like for African Americans in 1960 Harlem. Locate information which deals with a variety of issues:

• available employment

• living conditions

• race relations

• African-American culture

DOL using Comparative and Superlative Forms

Decode Idioms Through Context - Context Clues, idioms, verbal phrases


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12 Synthesizing Supporting Details eyewitness accounts, tone

“Coming of Age in Mississippi” Ann Moody

“Revolutionary Dreams” Nikki Giovanni


Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

View: Malcolm X speech – on Video

DOL Using Modifiers for Comparison

Create Mood strong verbs and active and passive voice

13 Elements of an Argument and Analyze Genres Deductive reasoning/ autobiography, memoir, interview

“Letters from a Birmingham Jail” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Stride Toward Freedom” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“The Ballad of Birmingham” Dudley Randall


Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

Listen: Find a protest or other type of song that would be appropriate to represent the mood or theme of the poem, “The Ballad of Birmingham.”

DOL Identifying Prepositional Phrases

Use Rhetorical Devices parallelism and word analogies

14 Understanding Cultural Context and author’s message Inductive reasoning, mood, imagery and figurative language

“In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” Alice Walker

“Mother Tongue” Amy Tan


Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

Create: Design a garden that reflects the description given by Walker in her autobiography.

DOL Identifying Infinitives and Direct Objects

Use Appropriate Language Informal language, slang, dialect


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“The Sky Blue Ball” Joyce Carol Oates


Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

END OF LESSON DOL Identifying Prepositional Phrases


Unit 4 - Sexism


Language Skill

16 Analyze an Argument Claim, support, counterargument, general principle, faulty reasoning, logical fallacies: circular logic, stereotyping, hasty generalizations, and non-sequitur

from Emile Jean Jaques Rousseau

“Declaration of Sentiments” Elizabeth Cady Stanton

-- Writing Workshop

• Expository Writing

• Writing Process

Speaking and Listening: Write and administer a survey meant to gauge the attitudes people hold about the roles of men and women in our society. Summarize and present findings in discussion board.

DOL Using Varied Punctuation

Use Advanced punctuation Using Hyphens, dashes, brackets, parentheses


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17 Detecting Bias background

from Sermons to Young Women James Fordyce

“Letters to Catherine Beecher” Angelina Grimké

-- Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

Create an Ad Campaign to Persuade people toward or away from the ideas of James Fordyce or Angelina Grimké.

DOL Using Proper Nouns

Use Rhetorical Devices Apostrophe, Metonymy, Synecdoche, antithesis, parallelism, rhetorical questions Vary Sentence Types

18 Paraphrase Main Ideas/ Note Author’s perspective author’s purpose, characterization, character traits,

“Woman in the Nineteenth Century” Margaret Fuller

“Editorial in the North Star” Frederick Douglass

-- Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

View: Video – A Gathering of Men

DOL Avoiding Cliché in Writing

19 Understanding Social Context /first person narrator social context, setting

“The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gillman

-- Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

Research: A modern case of sexism against the male, female, or other gender.

DOL Punctuating Titles


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“The Sky Blue Ball” Joyce Carol Oates

-- Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

End of Lesson DOL Reduce Wordiness in Writing


Unit 5 - Ageism


Language Skill

21 Reading Graphic Aids Reading information presented visually and quantitatively (Graphs, tables, charts)

“A New Kind of War” Ernest Hemingway

“Why Soldiers Won’t Talk” John Steinbeck

“Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” Randall Jarrell

-- Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

Create: Create a photo collage that traces the evolution of warfare through images from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the war in Iraq. Students may include words or phrases as part of the collage.

DOL Editing Skills


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22 Adjust Reading Strategies Main Idea, deductive reasoning

“Who Serves in the U.S. Military?” Shanea Watkins, Ph.D. and James Sherk

-- Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

Research - Post-traumatic stress disorder and use findings in a group discussion. Sample research questions include:

• What causes the disorder?

• What are its symptoms and effects?

• How is it treated?

• How has people’s understanding of the disorder changed over the years?

DOL Editing Skills

Sentence Problems Word choice, sentence structure, tone

23 Analyze Structure and Conflict types of conflict

“Fast Food Companies Are Still Trying To Woo Kids With Toys And Cartoon Characters” Tara Culp-Ressler

Ageism Against Teenagers llavenil

-- Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

Listen: Listen to the perspectives delivered by teens regarding their views on the position of adolescents in America in the video, “The Youngest Candidate.”

DOL Editing Skills


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24 Analyze Author’s Argument and Perspective author’s perspective, characterization, character traits

“The Law of Life” Jack London

Ageism in America International Longevity Center Report

-- Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

View: Look at various political cartoons and determine the message the creator is trying to deliver to his or her audience.

DOL Editing Skills

Reference Citations MLA format, citations, Works cited page 1376


“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” James Thurber

“Virtual Worlds” CNN

-- Writing Workshop


• Writing Process

END OF LESSON DOL Editing Skills


Unit 6 - Prejudice


Language Skill

26 Analyze Text and Graphics Reading Graphic Aids – pictures, maps, charts table diagrams

“Census Data: The U.S. Population”

“Survey: U.S. Religious Prejudice Strongest Against Muslims”

-- Writing Workshop

• Nonfiction Narrative

• Posttest

• Incorporating feedback

View: Video Obesity Pain and Prejudice

DOL Editing Skills

Spelling – Greek, Latin, French, Anglo Saxon roots


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27 Classification and Patterns of Organization cause and effect, chronological order, comparison and contrast

“ADA Signing Ceremony” George H.W. Bush

“Stereotypes Deter Women from Becoming Scientists” Ada Akl

-- Writing Workshop


• Posttest


Media Literacy –Analyze Stereotypical Images in mass media

DOL Editing Skills

28 Making Inferences style, contemporary language

I Will Fight No More Forever” Chief Joseph

-- Writing Workshop


• Posttest


Media Literacy – Analyze Stereotypical Images in mass media

DOL Editing Skills


from Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston

“Asian Americans Break Stereotypes through Urban Dance” Elizabeth Lee

-- Writing Workshop


• Posttest


-- DOL Editing Skills

Spelling Skills

30 All Skills Review Course Review 1-6

-- -- Writing Workshop


• Posttest


-- DOL Editing Skills

Units 1-6 Language Skills Review

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