Phase 1 Objectives
By the end of Phase 1, students should be
- Aware of the variety of green rhetorics used and the variety of people employing green rhetoric;
- Immersing themselves in a conversation about the rhetoric of green by understanding what is being said and how it is being said;
- Able to write an academic summary that accurately and objectively represents a text’s argument;
- Able to write an analytical response that addresses the effectiveness of a text in reaching its intended audience; they will be able to describe an audience (including the assumptions made about the audience and the implications of those assumptions), and they’ll be able to describe the style and tone of a text while exploring the text’s effectiveness (at reaching its purpose with its audience);
- Developing an understanding of rhetorical situation: purpose, audience, writer, text, and context;
- Able to identify (some) strategies a writer uses to address purpose and audience such as:
- Focus (intros, claims)
- Development (evidence, examples, explanations)
- Organization (narrative, argument)
- Coherence (transitions and other cues);
- Making connections between what they’re reading in class and their outside-of-class lives (for example, by means of keeping a list of examples from their daily lives that explore/exploit the rhetoric of green);
- Initiating a critical discussion of texts based upon their close and critical reading of texts.