173: Enjoy Teaching Rhetorical Analysis (with these Strategies)

Want to teach rhetorical analysis in a way that's creative, engaging, AND gets the job done? Mix and match these fun ELA strategies to suit your needs.

This week on the podcast, let’s talk about why rhetorical analysis is actually a blast. Sure, it sounds complicated to students at first. Ethos, pathos, and logos? Rhetorical situations? Logical fallacies? Rhetorical techniques? Phew!

But soon enough all these bits and pieces combine into a really interesting way to see how the songs, conversations, commercials, and speeches in our lives are persuading us to change how we view the world.

In today’s episode, we’re talking about creative, engaging ways to get students in your ELA classroom thinking about these different elements and how they relate to each other.

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