Rhetorical Analysis Unit with Sticky Notes: Activities, Writing, and PowerPoint

Increase student engagement and understanding with this rhetorical analysis unit. This unit includes an editable PowerPoint presentation with an entire week of direct instruction for rhetorical analysis, a sample speech to analyze with your students, and materials and writing assignments to use with any speech!

Your students will love these interactive and hands-on close reading organizers and scaffolded writing responses. Students will enjoy using sticky notes in class as they analyze complex speeches and nonfiction texts.

This sticky note rhetorical analysis unit is a great way to help students learn to thoroughly analyze text.

This lesson includes:

- an editable, 87-slide PowerPoint for teaching rhetorical analysis (with definitions and examples)

- 18 rhetorical analysis organizers

- 9 writing prompts with outlines

- 2 grading rubrics

- teacher instructions

- a sample week lesson plan

- three included speeches

- suggested speeches for further instruction

The PowerPoint includes these teachable slides:

- rhetoric

- SOAPStone

- speaker

- occasion

- audience

- purpose

- tone

- tone words

- diction

- connotation

- denotation

- the rhetorical triangle

- ethos

- pathos

- logos

- rhetorical tropes

- rhetorical schemes

- allusion

- apostrophe

- metaphor

- simile

- personification

- alliteration

- assonance

- consonance

- onomatopoeia

- hyperbole

- oxymoron

- rhetorical question

- parallel structure

- juxtaposition

- asyndeton

- polysyndeton

- anadiplosis

- anaphora

- chiasmus

*This unit was designed to be used in a high school classroom and it is rigorous enough for AP Language and Composition students. Also, since the direct instruction PowerPoint is editable and there are a variety of organizers, this unit is also suitable to use in the middle school classroom with minimal modification.

This unit includes almost all of the resources you will need for a complete rhetorical analysis unit. You will need to choose and provide additional text you read in class to make your own unit come to life. With a little prep work and all of the materials in this unit, you will teach the best rhetorical analysis unit ever!

**Updated 12/12/2020 to correct minor errors and typos

This resource is bundled!

Sticky Note Analysis Bundle: Literary, Rhetoric, Poetry

The included PDF pages are secured and not editable.