Description
Choose an idea from theories of rhetoric that corresponds well with a genre you would like to develop as a unit for instruction. Learn as much as you can about it. topic: EuphemismsShare appropriate instructional material and models of the rhetorical concept with students that are appropriate examples for the genre you have chosen to teach. For instance, you may wish to put together a letter-writing unit, and part of that unit might be focused on teaching the students about the rhetorical concept of ars dictiminis. What websites, videos, or self-created instructional examples might be shared with students to help instruct them on this concept, which would be a crucial part of the larger unit?Create an assignment that is a student-centered activity that would count as “environmental learning” as George Hillocks defines it: clear and specific objectives, materials, and/or problems that engage students directly with those objectives, and a high level of peer interaction. See Hillocks, 1986, p. 122 for a quick explanation of environmental learning (NOTE: You will be required to post this assignment that you create in the Topic 6 “Workshop Forum II” by day 3 of this week).Develop procedural steps for teaching your environmental learning activity. Your steps should use typical classroom strategies such as time for a review of material, advanced organizers, time for application, time for reflection, and so on. (For example: in a review/launch/deliver/apply/close sequence, your environmental learning activity should be the “apply” portion of the lesson, while other parts of the plan help students connect your activity to their previous knowledge and provide them with the necessary background information and reflection to complete it well and use the skill and knowledge they gain as they write the genre you assign to them.). As you work through the steps, note your role in the steps, as the educator, and the role of the students in the steps, both as individuals and group members. Be aware, you will use parts of what you produce in this assignment for parts of future assignments. You will share your assignment description with your peers in the Topic 6 “Workshop Forum II”. You will include both the assignment description and procedural steps in your Topic 8 assignment.
