December 19, 2012

December 19, 2012

Lesson

Discussion Forum on Of Mice and Men (Click it):

http://members.boardhost.com/teamthunderenglish/index.html?1355503761 

Essential Question: How do we use rhetorical appeals and advertising techniques to sell a product?

Check as we complete.

______Do Now: Get into your groups of three. Be prepared to do your presentation. Also, familiarize yourself with page 72 in your Springboard text again. Have your text open to this page. 

______Respond in writing in the graphic organizer and the margins your identification of each of the group’s use of advertising techniques and rhetorical appeals.

______Fill out the rubric in response to each of the groups, as this will inform both assessment and serve as practice for our work with the embedded assessment #2.

_______Review of embedded assessment #2. Check and improve my embedded assessment #2 checklist. You might type this out and save this to your laptop as we will be working on the embedded assessment this week and when we return from the holiday.

Read Aloud: Of Mice and Men. 

HW: Continue reading Of Mice and Men to page 65 for Thurs./Fri. Visit the discussion board and respond. That means you should have six responses to questions or comments made by the teacher your fellow classmates.

Thursday/ Friday Class

We will:

_______Review pages 77-79 in Springboard. Page 79 will be very important to your completion of an ad. This will be checked at the beginning of class to see that you have completed. 

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Peer Review: Complete this rubric for each group on the paper provided. Identify one group member to identify the group on the paper. Groups will present 2-3 minute commercials using rhetorical appeals and advertising techniques. Score by identifying each letter identifying the scoring criteria and then a score between one and four.

Scores: 1-Doesn’t Meet  2-Emerging 3-Proficient 4-Exemplary

Group Member: “Joe”

A. Organization: 1  2  3  4

B. Use of advertising technique(s): 1 2 3 4

C. Identifiable rhetorical appeals: ____________________________________________

1. Slogan and Clearly Defined Product 1 2 3 4

E. Polished Ad: Evidence of Practice 1 2 3 4