Writerhetoric

This document consists of fifty five sentences that contain errors in punctuation. The specific punctuation errors are related to comma, colon, or semicolon use. The answers are available on pages 9 through 13. The amount of time it takes to discuss the answers with the class depends on the grade level and the class time allotment.

This is a review of concepts related to MLA in-text citations, and it is great for students who are becoming familiar with citing and plagiarism. This is a PowerPoint that works just like jeopardy. If you are unfamiliar with how it works, simply refer to the instructions and you'll soon enjoy one of America's favorite games right in your classroom.

This activity contains 10 paragraphs that are scrambled and that require students to attempt to rearrange the sentences in the correct order. Answers are provided. This would make a great group project in which each group or individual is given a sentence or a few sentences and is required to communicate with others in the class or group. Students would have to work cooperatively in determining the correct organization.

This document contains 50 choice problems in which students choose whether the objective case or subjective case of the pronoun should be used. Students are tested on their knowledge of I, me, they, them, she, and he, him, and her.

Here is an explanation of the rhetorical triangle, its parts--speaker, ethos, audience, pathos, message, and logos--and various fictional scenarios that are examples of how to apply each part. The entire presentation promotes student interaction and suggestion, and the scenarios are fun and interesting. In addition, there are scenario activities at the end for student practice to assess what they have learned.

This presents descriptions of 9 types of pronouns and provides students with practice exercises. (reflexive; reciprocal; personal; interrogative; intensive; indefinite; demonstrative; possessive; relative)

This document consists of an overview of rhetoric, the constituents ethos, pathos, logos, message, speaker, audience and kairos, and how they are used in 10 songs. The list of songs is available in the preview. Also included are response sheets for students to analyze the rhetoric in any of the songs as a homework or classwork assignment. My students and I enjoyed it, and I hope you and yours will too!

This document contains 50 practice exercises that assess students' knowledge and understanding of parallelism with a series, coordinating conjunctions, correlative conjunctions, function words and "than" and "as".

Showing versus telling is a lecture plus activities that focuses on the descriptive strategies action verbs, voice, adjectives, adverbs, participles and participle phrases. It consists of suggestions for activities for each topic of focus. In addition, there are two assignments at the end of the lecture that test students' knowledge of all strategies taught.

This lecture discusses appositives, restrictive and nonrestrictive, and contains 30 practice exercises.

This looks at the difference between restrictive and nonrestrictive elements in a sentence, two types of restrictive and nonrestrictive elements --modifying phrases, and appositives-- and contains 25 practice exercises with answers.

This product is for review and contains 12 practice questions, most matching, and a couple multiple choice. The questions pertain to labeling the parts in works cited entries, how the entries should be formatted on the works cited page, and how the works cited page should look.

This document contains 50 practice exercises that aid with teaching the conditions in which to use dashes and parentheses.

This document contains 2 practice exercises that require students to fill in color coded sections of a classical argument essay rough draft. The parts include the enthymeme, grounds, backing, warrant, and possible doubts/ rebuttals. The topics are given along with possible answers. Topics are killer whale performance training and online math classes.

This is a fun way to teach and practice APA guidelines for writing an essay. This game is equipped with double jeopardy and daily doubles !

This document contains 5 separate topics with for and against articles students must read and determine the claims, reasons and warrants. Students will then have to determine common ground. This activity is a great exercise to help students prepare for writing a Rogerian Argument essay, a common ground essay, or a proposal essay. I have only included parts of the articles, but the citations areincluded, so they can be found by accessing the Opposing Viewpoints Database. Suggested answers

This document contains 3 topics and fill in outlines to help students prepare for writing a Rogerian Argument or Proposal Argument essay. The three topics are as follows: 1) Academics and Technology, 2) Parenting Styles, and 3) Organic Versus Non-organic food. The outline parts consist of the introduction, summary of audience viewpoints, common ground, proposal, and conclusion. Possible answers are included.

This document assess students' ability to use three common types of punctuation: commas, colons, and semicolons. There are 55 problems that include answers. A scantron answer sheet can be used, since they include answer choices from which to choose.

This jeopardy game tests knowledge of comma usage--with borrowed information, with nonrestrictive and restrictive elements, with introductory elements, independent and dependent clauses.

This document provides examples of complete profiles and a writing guide with examples to assist students with elements of writing profiles, such as description and imagery.