Grade 6 Spring — Rhetorical Devices, Sentence Craft, and Formal Multi-Pass Peer Revision Protocols
English · RH G6 eng.g6.s.rh.rhetorical_question

Identify and construct RHETORICAL QUESTIONS — questions posed for effect, not requiring an answer (CCSS L.6.3.a; RI.6.6)

Identify rhetorical questions in mentor texts (Douglass title; Adichie 'How many stories...?'; Maathai 'Are we not all children of this earth?'). Construct rhetorical questions in own argument for engagement, provocation, and audience co-thinking. Distinguish from genuine questions (which expect answers) and from indirect questions.

Mastery threshold
85%
Min instances
8
Typical minutes
35
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
  • eng.g7.f.rh.advanced_questioning_devices
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Common misconceptions
  • Uses a rhetorical question whose answer is unclear or ambiguous — defeats the purpose (audience cannot 'feel they answered').
  • Asks a real (information-seeking) question and labels it rhetorical.

Exercise pool (3)

Diff Stem Type
2 Construct 3 rhetorical questions on your fall topic using 3 different 5-stem starters (How can we / Who among us / What does it mean to... construct three rhetorical questions
2 Classify 6 questions as GENUINE or RHETORICAL: (1) 'What time is the test?' (2) 'Will we let our students fail because we feared... distinguish genuine vs rhetorical
4 Construct a STACK of 3 rhetorical questions (Douglass-style) building moral pressure on your spring argument topic. stack rhetorical questions