I'm a strange bird in the sense that I love to teach rhetorical analysis.
But it can be so pedantically boring!!
Not if you do two things:
- Gamify classroom discussion
- Choose super enticing texts that are situated in the student's natural wheelhouse
Hence today's instructional video in which I spotlight a classroom practice known as the Plato's Play-Doh Discussion.
In this edutainment model, my students and I created discussion questions for two texts:
- Taylor Swift's open letter to Apple Music
- Taylor Swift's prologue to her 1989 re-release album
The questions have a ton of pith and substance, so not only will you see your students tearing apart texts at a super advanced level, but you'll also witness the complexity of their writing augment pretty substantially.
All of the Plato's Play-Doh Discussion slides are available for download (just look in the video's description ... links for the texts are also there).
Also note that I did a rhetorical analysis writing workshop video that spotlights Taylor Swift's NYU commencement address in which I "paint" the entire essay right before student's eyes all while pulling the strings of my heuristics.
Happy teaching and happy writing!
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