This document provides an agenda for a class on analyzing bias in word choice and diction. The agenda includes a do now asking students about their opinions on Twilight, a review of bias, flashcards on pictographs, and an exit ticket. The class will discuss how to identify biased and unbiased language and sentences, then have a quiz tomorrow on common rhetorical devices including stereotypes, sequential order, cause and effect, and more.

1. DO NOW
In at least five sentences:
Do you like Twilight (the
movies or the books)? Why
or why not?

2. Good news?

3. Agenda
 Done now and good news
 Bias Review
 Pictograph flashcards
 Exit Ticket

4. Objective
 SWBAT analyze the effect of bias on diction (word
choice)

5. What did you write for your
Do Now?

6. Bias = one-sided opinion,
prejudice
WORD CHOICE (diction) is important to figuring out
whether or not a writer has bias or not
UNBIASED = Twilight is a movie about a vampire and a
girl who fall in love with each other.
BIASED = Twilight is a stupid movie that you should not
see.
BIASED = I think Twilight is the best!

7. Which sentences below are
biased?
 Jeff Davies is a superb secretary, despite the fact that he is a
man.
 Jeff Davies is a superb secretary.
 A growing movement of young people believes that Wall Street
CEOs are corrupt and greedy.
 Everyone on Wall Street is corrupt and greedy.

8. QUIZ TOMORROW
 Stereotype  Sequential order
 Bias  Cause and effect
 Big name  Procedure
 Logos  Compare/Contrast
 Pathos  Order of importance
 Ethos  Problem/Solution
 Kairos

9. Pictograph Flashcards:
FRONT BACK

10. Exit Ticket
 Rate yourself from 1-5: I used my time wisely in class.
 Rate yourself from 1-5: I completed all of my work.
 Is there a topic you’d like to discuss in tomorrow’s class
meeting?