Course design · AP-aligned
College-Level Rhetoric and Composition
108 lessons, each built from the same reliable pattern: watch, practice, check.
- The challenge
- An AP-aligned rhetoric and composition course for grade 11.
- Audience
- Grade 11 students.
- My role
- Course designer, scriptwriter and assessment writer.
- Tools
- Course map
- Video scripts
- Guided notes
- Quizzes
- Rubrics
01Course map
Nine units and 108 lessons, built on public-domain nonfiction by Lincoln, Douglass, Wollstonecraft, Wells, Du Bois and others.
Each lesson pairs a short video, a guided activity and a three-question quiz.
02Sample lesson package
“Reading the Rhetorical Situation” (Unit 1, Lesson 1):
- A video script with visual cues.
- Printable guided notes using Elizabeth I’s Tilbury speech.
- A five-question quiz with feedback on every answer.
- An original four-level rubric.
03Video scripts
Three teleprompter scripts: “What Counts as Evidence?”, “A Thesis That Needs Defending” and “Linking Evidence to Your Claim.”
Each has timecodes, on-screen cues, a 20-second practice pause and a scaffolded quiz (identify, apply, analyze).