At Ethical ELA, Sarah Donovan shared "Teaching a Charged Rhetorical Moment with Care: Reading images Before They Become Arguments" on January 26. It is worth a read even if you are not faced with the Herculean task of working with our youth during these very challenging times. We are all trying to process the words and pictures that evoke strong emotional responses.
Dr. Donovan suggests, "To keep this work from becoming positional or combative, writing should function first as sense-making rather than argument." She goes on to say, "literacy is not only about persuasion. It is also about attention, restraint, and care."
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