“There is within and without the sound of conflict”: How do authors use figurative language or rhetoric to advance their point of view or purpose?
Link: Module 11.2
In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze literary and informational texts, focusing on how authors use word choice and rhetoric to develop ideas, and advance their points of view and purposes. The texts in this module represent varied voices, experiences, and perspectives, but are united by their shared exploration of the effects of prejudice and oppression on identity construction. Each of the module texts is a complex work with multiple central ideas and claims that complement the central ideas and claims of other texts in the module. All four module texts offer rich opportunities to analyze authorial engagement with past and present struggles against oppression, as well as how an author’s rhetoric or word choices strengthen the power and persuasiveness of the text.
Module Focus Skills & Habits
- Read closely for textual details
- Annotate texts to support comprehension and analysis
- Delineate evidence and reasoning in an argument
- Engage in productive evidence-based discussions about text
- Determine meaning of unknown vocabulary from context
- Independently preview text in preparation for supported analysis
- Paraphrase and quote relevant evidence from a text
- Practice key informative/explanatory writing skills
- Collect and organize evidence from texts to support analysis in writing
- Track rhetoric and how it advances the author’s purpose or point of view in the text
- Track ideas and their refinement or development over the course of the text
- Generate and respond to questions in scholarly discourse
Module 11.2 carries the concepts of oppression and power structures into the study of historical American nonfiction and contemporary American poetry. Students begin the module with a focus on how rhetoric becomes a tool to combat oppression through a close reading of the first chapter of W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, followed by Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise Speech.” Students then broaden their exploration of struggles against oppression to include issues of gender as they consider point of view and purpose in “An Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” a foundational speech in the women’s rights movement, and analyze imagery and figurative language in Audre Lorde’s contemporary poem “From the House of Yemanjá.”
Texts: (Many Available HERE)
Unit 1:
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, Chapter 1: “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”
“Atlanta Compromise Speech” by Booker T. Washington
Unit 2:
“An Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton”
“From the House of Yemanjá” by Audre Lorde
Descriptions Adapted From EngageNY
Updated 1/7/15 (KBW)
Link: Module 11.2
In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze literary and informational texts, focusing on how authors use word choice and rhetoric to develop ideas, and advance their points of view and purposes. The texts in this module represent varied voices, experiences, and perspectives, but are united by their shared exploration of the effects of prejudice and oppression on identity construction. Each of the module texts is a complex work with multiple central ideas and claims that complement the central ideas and claims of other texts in the module. All four module texts offer rich opportunities to analyze authorial engagement with past and present struggles against oppression, as well as how an author’s rhetoric or word choices strengthen the power and persuasiveness of the text.
Module Focus Skills & Habits
- Read closely for textual details
- Annotate texts to support comprehension and analysis
- Delineate evidence and reasoning in an argument
- Engage in productive evidence-based discussions about text
- Determine meaning of unknown vocabulary from context
- Independently preview text in preparation for supported analysis
- Paraphrase and quote relevant evidence from a text
- Practice key informative/explanatory writing skills
- Collect and organize evidence from texts to support analysis in writing
- Track rhetoric and how it advances the author’s purpose or point of view in the text
- Track ideas and their refinement or development over the course of the text
- Generate and respond to questions in scholarly discourse
Module 11.2 carries the concepts of oppression and power structures into the study of historical American nonfiction and contemporary American poetry. Students begin the module with a focus on how rhetoric becomes a tool to combat oppression through a close reading of the first chapter of W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, followed by Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise Speech.” Students then broaden their exploration of struggles against oppression to include issues of gender as they consider point of view and purpose in “An Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” a foundational speech in the women’s rights movement, and analyze imagery and figurative language in Audre Lorde’s contemporary poem “From the House of Yemanjá.”
Texts: (Many Available HERE)
Unit 1:
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, Chapter 1: “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”
“Atlanta Compromise Speech” by Booker T. Washington
Unit 2:
“An Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton”
“From the House of Yemanjá” by Audre Lorde
Descriptions Adapted From EngageNY
Updated 1/7/15 (KBW)