ENG3U Unit 2: The Art of Argument

Students analyse four landmark public domain speeches, including two very different records of Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech and a Canadian suffrage classic, put fallacies on trial, learn lateral reading and MLA, and build their own argument with the Toulmin model.

Assessment of learning: a researched argumentative essay and an in-class rhetorical analysis, with rubrics.

Lessons

1. The Rhetorical Situation
2. The Rhetorician's Toolkit
3. Frederick Douglass
4. Analysing Rhetoric
5. Whose Words?
6. Hardy Perennials
7. Fallacy Court
8. The Op-Ed
9. Research Sprint
10. Building the Argument
11. Drafting
12. Revising for Style
13. Rhetorical Analysis Workshop
14. Soapbox and Reflect

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 18 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• A Reading Packet with all four speeches
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and the summative tasks and rubrics