Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Speakers utilize specific rhetorical strategies in their presentations to convey the central and supporting ideas.
- Rhetorical strategies that can develop central and supporting ideas include point of view, purpose, comparisons, analogies, categories, allusions, and word choice.
- Speakers develop the central idea of their presentation by including supporting details to further elaborate on the presentation's central meaning.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify a speaker's rhetorical strategies related to point of view, purpose, comparisons, analogies, categories, allusions, and word choice.
- Evaluate an author's rhetorical choices related to point of view, purpose, comparisons, analogies, categories, allusions, and figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings.
- Evaluate how a speaker's rhetorical choices developed the central and supporting ideas of the presentation.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- When creating and presenting a presentation, speakers make specific decisions about structure, format, and vocabulary to accurately convey their central and supporting ideas.
Vocabulary
- Central idea
- Supporting ideas
- Recorded presentations
- Live presentations
- Rhetorical strategies
- Rhetorical choices
- Point of view
- Purpose
- Comparisons
- Analogies
- Categories
- Allusions
- Figurative word meanings
- Connotative word meanings
- Technical word meanings
