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Teaching Rhetoric Through Documentaries

Teaching Rhetoric Through Documentaries. Kellie Hannum Boise State Writing Project Skyview High School Nampa, ID. The Rhetorical Situation. Writer= rhetor speaker Text= subject Reader= audience Rhetoric= mature reasoning~ Crusius and Channell in The Aims of Argument.

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Teaching Rhetoric Through Documentaries

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  1. Teaching Rhetoric Through Documentaries Kellie Hannum Boise State Writing Project Skyview High School Nampa, ID

  2. The Rhetorical Situation Writer= rhetor speaker Text= subject Reader= audience Rhetoric= mature reasoning~ Crusius and Channell in The Aims of Argument

  3. My Goals: • Students learn the functions of argumentation: • identify issues, • weigh other viewpoints, • form and defend their own opinions and • prepare rebuttals for possible counter-arguments • Critical Literacy

  4. Documentaries as Rhetoric FILM DIRECTOR SUBJECT MATTER AUDIENCE “alternative visual rhetoric defined here as the use of media such as film, television and hypertext” (Gray-Rosendale,168).

  5. Documentaries as Motivation • Critical Media Literacy: enhance critical thinking skills and prepare for a future of increased media influence • Goal: engage students in reading, viewing and listening in order to become more adept at exploring the multiple views different texts offer and then make sound judgments for themselves • Combines a text format they are comfortable with and an analysis task they are being asked to learn

  6. Let’s Try It • An Inconvenient Truth • trailer site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnjx6KETmi4 • Not Evil Just Wrong • trailer site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHMOEVRysWE

  7. The process… • Groups choose a documentary to analyze and present • Examine published reviews • Present in depth analysis of one doc • Student Work

  8. Student Reflections • “I prefer watching the documentaries because they give more depth than the text with music, colors and expressions on faces. It was easier for me to pick things out because there was more emphasis on them…I think I am getting better at doing rhetorical analyses because we are doing it on different mediums such as film, cartoons and text.”

  9. Student Reflections • “I thought the analysis of the films was much easier than analyzing text because I could actually hear tone and see structure, which is difficult for me to pick out in text. In the film, the purpose is more apparent than in the text, because you can hear the emotion and tone toward the subject.”

  10. Student Reflections • “…while watching the film it was easier to evaluate rhetorical situations. It was definitely more enjoyable for me. However, it seems faster paced…because everything is coming at once. But after watching it 2 or 3 times I can get almost everything.”

  11. Student Reflections • “I can analyze rhetorical devices through text rather than watching a film. I can connect better with text rather than a video because I can re-read the text..a process just goes through my head while I read and I subconsciously connect to the text and analyze how and why the rhetorical devices are used.”

  12. Student Reflections • “I find that when it comes to examining argument both forms [text and film] are equally easy. That’s because after practicing both so much … it’s just habit now- even when I’m not asked to find the argument/purpose I find myself doing it anyway.

  13. Looking Forward: • Adapt for non-AP population and the argument essays they write. • Work toward groups writing, creating, filming, and editing their own documentary about an issue that affects them directly

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