Epideictic

This lesson uses the popular sitcom Friends and the classic public debate of "Faith Vs. Reason" to create a fun, accessible way of understanding the relationship between claims, reasons, and evidence.

This peer learning assignment and lesson plan series gives students the opportunity to explore digital composition.

This assignment encourges students to think about how they can read and piece together primary sources to create a descriptive narrative.

In this lesson students review the basics of argument types & rhetorical appeals.  Working in groups, they look for examples of several argument types in facebook status updates.  As a class we review the examples, evaluate their classifications, and discuss the rhetorical appeals at play.  

Through this assignment, students learn to close-read (critique) monuments on campus and consider the rhetorical nature of memory.