1. Ranting & Raving

2. Brainstorm
What is a rant?

3. Rant
A short passionate message that tries to persuade the viewer to agree with the presented opinion

4. Viewing A Rant
Set up a table that looks like the one below on your paper
As we view the following rants, record the required information in your table
Rant Title
Topic
Supporting Points

5. Rick Mercer Rants Snow Days: The War on Fun:
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The War on Fun:
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6. Rick Mercer Rants [Cont’d]
Escalators & Elevators:
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Patience:

7. Rick Mercer Rants [Cont’d]
Refugees:
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8. What Makes an Effective Rant?
On the sticky note provided, your group must come up with four reasons why the Rick Mercer rants are effective?

9. What Makes an Effective Rant?
On the sticky note provided, your group must come up with four reasons why the Rick Mercer rants are effective?
We will now go around to each group and your group will share one idea from your sticky note. We will continue to rotate and have each group share ideas until all ideas have been exhausted

10. What Makes an Effective Rant?
On the sticky note provided, your group must come up with four reasons why the Rick Mercer rants are effective?
We will now go around to each group and your group will share one idea from your sticky note. We will continue to rotate and have each group share ideas until all ideas have been exhausted
This list will help develop our success criteria for this rant assignment

11. Step 1: Brainstorming & Planning
Rant Topic Brainstorming:
Think of your pet peeves. Brainstorm a list of at least 10 school appropriate topics that bother you. Examples: homework, driving age, cost of movie tickets, etc.
Rant Planning:
Select four topics from your rant topic brainstorm, and explain them in detail formatted like the table below:
Possible Topics
Supporting Points