ELA21.12.21

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 12

ELA21.12.21
Analyze a speaker’s rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices in order to determine point of view, purpose, and effectiveness.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:

Speakers organize their speech to indicate the point of view and purpose of the presentation.
Listeners can assess a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices to determine the point of view, purpose, and effectiveness of the presentation.

Skills

Students are able to:

Identify and analyze a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices.
Evaluate a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices to determine the point of view, purpose, and effectiveness of the presentation.

Understanding

Students understand that:

Speakers make rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices that affect the overall effectiveness of their presentations.
Active listening is critical to evaluating the rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices of a speaker's presentation.
The language of a speech is affected by a speaker's purpose and point of view, which then affects rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices.

Vocabulary

Rhetorical choices
Aesthetic choices
Organizational choices
Point of view
Purpose
Effectiveness

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