Teaching the rhetorical triangle to middle school students
I'm wondering if anyone out there has any ideas for teaching the rhetorical triangle to advanced middle school students. I don't want to make it too easy or too difficult. Any suggestions would be great.
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Comment by Lynne Kelsey on November 9, 2009 at 5:39am - I found both texts online, but you can't post a file to a blog! Jennifer, can you very briefly describe what you expect your students to discover? (Forgive my laziness; it's 5:39 a.m. here and my brain is consumed with Hamlet, which we begin today.)
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Comment by Mark Gardner on November 8, 2009 at 7:42pm - Jennifer: do you use the texts or do you have access to the video too? (youtube?)
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Comment by Jennifer Partridge on November 8, 2009 at 4:11pm - I teach it by looking at Nikki Giovanni's and President Bush's speeches at Virginia Tech. Same subject and audience, but very different speakers with different backgrounds/perspectives, and therefore very different effects.
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