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CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.04.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Elements of Rhetoric for the World Language Classroom
  4. Audience: Whom Are You Trying to Convince?
  5. The Five Canons of Rhetoric
  6. The Three Modes of Persuasion in the World Language Classroom
  7. Fake it 'til You Make it: Artifice versus the Artificial
  8. Activity I: Pinwheels of Persuasion
  9. Resources
  10. Appendix A: Standards
  11. Appendix B: Oral Practice Pinwheel
  12. Appendix C: Written Practice Pinwheel
  13. Appendix D: Copia Pinwheel
  14. Notes

Elements of Rhetoric in the Language-Learning Classroom: Convince Me You are Fluent!

Crecia L. Cipriano

Published September 2014

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Notes

1) Merriam-Webster free dictionary online.

2) Clipart from: http://sweetclipart.com/multisite/sweetclipart/files/pinwheel_pastel.png

3) As shared in Lanham 164.

4) As shared in Lanham 165-166.

5) Bear in mind that as I adapt these canons to the language-learning classroom, some aspects will present themselves differently than they do in discussion of pure rhetoric.

6) Identifying the audience is actually a component of Invention, but I found it more constructive to address that first, and separately, as an organizing structure for our work. In the discussion of rhetorical planning, the 3 modes of persuasion are approached in the category of Invention, but I include them later in the unit, as they will be used a bit differently in our world language classroom. The topic of timing, also considered under the category of Invention, is largely irrelevant for our purposes.

7) http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/commonplacebookterm

8) Curtain and Pesola, 59.

9) Roach 16.

10) http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Pedagogy/Copia.htm

11) For a detailed example that can be used as a springboard, see: http://burton.byu.edu/Composition/CopiaGuide.pdf

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