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How do Authors use Rhetoric to Advance their Work’s Purpose? (English 10 Unit Planning)

As part of my student teaching experience, I designed this PreAP curriculum-aligned unit to teach to tenth-grade students in a suburban high school. Below, I provide the teaching context, daily lesson plans, instructional materials, and assessment plans for the unit. In the context section, I explain how my school’s context, student population, and curriculum expectations …

Rhetoric Challenge (Pretests as Planning Tools)

Overview As a new student teacher tasked with teaching a unit about how authors of informational texts use rhetoric to advance their messages, I knew I would have to gain an understanding of my students’ starting knowledge of rhetorical terms and abilities to analyze texts rhetorically. While I had some existing assessment data to work …

What Factors Contribute to Our Individual Experiences of Climate Alteration? (English 8 Unit)

Overview In the reflection below, I examine an incident I encountered while tutoring and eighth-grade student and describe what this incident taught me about how young teen’s desire to explore and further define their identities impacts the way they engage with subject-area content. Applying my learnings from the experience on which I reflect, I present …

Instructional Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension

In this portfolio, I provide twelve instructional that strategies instructors can engage students in considering either before, during, or after reading a text. Alongside each strategy, I discuss concepts from modern literacy theory as rationale for why I believe the activity will increase student learning. The strategy portfolio demonstrates my ability to recognize which learning …

Incorporating SIOP and TESOL Principals into Instruction

Overview: Teaching Formalist Criticism in a Multilingual Classroom New Criticism literary theory views the text as a unit of meaning, independent of its historical contexts, as well as the biographical information and “intention” of its author (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, 2018). New critics examine how the words, phrases, and structure of a text contribute …

Identifying and Assessing Content-Specific Language

Creating Novel Assessments to Collect Accurate Student Data In 2018, a high school practicing Project-Based Learning invited me into their halls as a composition tutor and seminar assistant. Working with scholars throughout the course of the semester as they proposed, planned, and presented their independent projects as a means to meet state standards allowed me …

Popular Rhetoric and Dominate Worldviews Unit

 Subject-Area Knowledge This unit takes students through a postcolonial and class reading of the rhetoric that the World Council in Ayn Rand’s Anthem uses to impact ideologies and hierarchize society. Then, it asks students to apply knowledge of how rhetoric is weaponized to oppress people to question how the popular rhetoric of the United States …