1. Monday Wednesday Friday
Unit 1
Reading and
Writing
Rhetorically
1/8-1/14 Syllabus Homework Due:
Introduce yourself on BbLearn
1 1/15-1/21 No Class - MLK Jr. Day Reading Due:
Becoming Rhetorical, Ch. 1 What it
Means to Become Rhetorical
Discussion and freewrite
2 1/22-1/28 Reading Due:
BR, Ch. 2 Rhetorical Elements
Lesson and discussion
Celebrity Freewrite
3 1/29-2/4 Reading Due:
BR, Ch. 7 Rhetorical Arguments
Pop Icon: First Draft
2 copies: 1 for peers and 1 for teacher
4 2/5-2/11 Reading Due:
“Radical Revision: My Road from
Fairy Tale to Catharsis” from
NWP.org (subject to change to more
directly applicable article on revision)
Pop Icon: Final Draft
Debriefing on paper writing process.
What did you do and how could you do
it better next time?
Unit 2
Seeing
Rhetorically
5 2/12-2/18 Reading Due:
BR, Ch. 8 Explaining Concepts,
Events, and Idea
6 2/19-2/25 No Class - President's Day Reading Due:
BR Ch. 4 Analyzing Visual Rhetoric
7 2/26-3/4 Reading Due:
BR, Ch. 5 Analyzing Multimodal
Rhetoric
Pop Ethos: First Draft
2 copies: 1 for peers and 1 for teacher
8 3/5-3/11 Reading Due:
BR Ch 6 Defining Rhetorical
Problems
Pop Ethos: Final Draft
3/12-3/18 No Class - Spring Break
2. Unit 3
The Educated
Response
9 3/19-3/25 Reading Due:
Ch. 12 Composing w Multiple
Sources
Lesson and discussion.
Freewrite: list all the advertisements that
come to mind in 5 minutes. Circle top 3.
Description of advertisement and
personal response
Lesson and discussion
Discussion of chapter. Move to small
groups and discuss chosen
advertisements.
10 3/26-4/1 Library week Library week Library week
11 4/2-4/8 Reading Due:
BR Ch 3 Analyzing Textual Rhetoric
Ad Campaign: First Draft
2 copies: 1 for peers and 1 for teacher
12 4/9-4/15 Ad Campaign: Final Draft
Unit 4
Responding
Appropriately
13 4/16-4/22 Reading Due:
BR, Ch. 13 Tools for Creating Visual
Compositions
Lesson and discussion
14 4/23-4/29 Reading Due:
BR Ch 14 Tools for Creating
Multimodal Compositions
15 4/30-5/6 Remediation: First Draft
2 copies: 1 for peers and 1 for teacher
16 5/7-5/13 Remediation: Final Draft
