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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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Resources

Changing Minds. http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/five_canons/five_canons.htm. Concise information on the five canons of rhetoric.

Corbett, Edward P.J. and Connors, Robert J. Classic Rhetoric for the Modern Student, fourth edition. Oxford University Press, 1998. Very thorough though dense guide to the art of rhetoric.

Curtain, Helena and Pesola, Carol Ann Bjornstad. Languages and Children: Making the Match (Foreign Language Instruction for an Early Start Grades K-8), second edition. Longman, 1994. This is a fundamental resource for K-8 language teachers and one to be consulted on all ideas for exploration in the K-8 World Language classroom.

Grammar – About. http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/copia.htm. Background for the copia.

Lanham, Richard A. A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, second edition. University of California Press, 1991. A clear, simple, and thorough guide to rhetoric and rhetorical terms.

Roach, Joseph R. The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting. University of

Michigan Press,1993. An enjoyable and insightful resource that in particular can illuminate the discussion of automaticity, spontaneity, and rehearsal as it pertains to performance.

Silva Rhetoricae (The Forest of Rhetoric). http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric. Helpful information on rhetoric, the commonplace book, and copia.

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