AP Unit 5 : Visual Rhetoric
Jan. 2 - Jan. 13

OBJECTIVES:

• Practice forming analysis of visual document
•  Develop cogent support of analysis
• Apply analytical skill set to real-world circumstances, including images in the media
• Master grammar rules of agreement

  



STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Articulately discuss (orally and in written format) controversial images in an academic context
• Write, edit and submit a paper analyzing a well-known historical or contemporary image
• Demonstrate mastery of increased vocabulary.
•  Apply knowledge of subject/verb agreement and pronoun/antecedent agreement, as well as edit others’ paper for these qualities

READINGS & VIEWINGS:

from Current Issues and Enduring Questions
o   “Visual Rhetoric: Images as Arguments” (141-174)

from Warriner’s Handbook
o   “Agreement” (94-121)
o   “Clear Reference” (146-159)



MAJOR ASSIGNMENT: 

Visual Analysis Essay (Major Writing Assignment) Students are expected to utilize newly acquired vocabulary and literary devices in all of their unit essays.

o   Students must choose their own essay topic for each essay category.   The scope of the topic must be appropriate.  Students must display a clear thesis and clearly support this thesis in each essay.  Please see writing assignment rubric for further details.

o   Students must also use all stages of the reading process as detailed in Current Issues… to complete the assignment.  Then, student must use the following process to write the essay (process to be explained in detail):

§  Stage 1: Planning (includes journaling, listing, and speculating)

§  Stage 2:  Drafting  (includes scratch outline, discovery draft, descriptive outline, formal outline, and rough draft)

§  Stage 3:  Revising  (includes  peer  draft,  1st draft,  and  final  draft  after  teacher review)

§  Stage 4: Designing (includes final draft, MLA conventions, and layout) 

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