Topic: Language Dissection during the Prohibition Era (You need to provide a rationale for having students investigate this era.) Rationale: Using texts around the Prohibition era, students will learn how language can be used as a rhetoric?? (awkward--recast) for political change, persuasion, and expression. Ashley Keough & Beverly Cummings
Letters from Senators during Prohibition Rationale: Students will use these letters to analyze language and how rhetoric of people in power are constructed [in writing].
Poem that Reveals Language of the TimeRationale: This poem will provide students with the opportunity to analyze language of the Prohibition era and will give students a better understanding of peoples' views toward Prohibition.
Rationale: Using texts around the Prohibition era, students will learn how language can be used as a rhetoric?? (awkward--recast) for political change, persuasion, and expression.
Ashley Keough & Beverly Cummings
Texts:
Context: Bootleg: //Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition//
Fulcrum: Black Duck
Texture:
Songs from 1960 in Honor of Prohibition
Rationale: Students will be able to listen to secondary source accounts of musical expression during the prohibition
Letters from Senators during Prohibition
Rationale: Students will use these letters to analyze language and how rhetoric of people in power are constructed [in writing].
Poem that Reveals Language of the TimeRationale: This poem will provide students with the opportunity to analyze language of the Prohibition era and will give students a better understanding of peoples' views toward Prohibition.