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Disney’s hit film “Encanto” delivered a number of songs that got stuck in our heads and that actually made their way into mainstream media. At its height, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” was number one on the charts for multiple weeks – shining a spotlight on its global impact, its catchiness, and its powerful use of language.
This lesson bundle offers an intensive guided rhetorical analysis (spanning 10 pages — that can be assigned independently, chunked by group, or jigsawed) that revolves around “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.” This bundle also includes activities that extend into additional arguments (from Encanto and beyond). This is a memorable lesson pack that your students will love, and that will draw them deeper into the world of rhetorical analysis.
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Lesson Description
Wondering exactly what this lesson bundle contains? Here’s what you can expect:
- A guided rhetorical analysis that pairs excerpts of the lyrics from “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” with guiding questions to model close reading and to prompt students to delve deeply into the text
- An exercise and graphic organizer that prompts students to detangle and unpack the various competing arguments occurring within “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”
- A graphic organizer and activity that prompts students to apply the same kind of rhetorical analysis and close reading they practiced when analyzing “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” to a second song from the film
- A compare and contrast activity that asks students to place a second song from Encanto into conversation with an argument of their choice
- A writing task (essay prompt) that can be assigned to ask students to compose a paper articulating their analysis
This is an awesome lesson bundle that your students will love. Fill their hearts and their brains!
You can grab this lesson “a la carte” for $6.99, OR, join TeachArgument now to gain instant access to this and ALL of our pop culture lessons!
Lesson Features
| Grades | 9 - 12+ |
| Focus | Close Reading, Rhetorical Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Compare & Contrast |
