This paper attempts to incorporate the current research done on the rhetoric of social movements into a coherent syllabus for a basic rhetoric course. It deals with the adaptation of the tools of rhetoric at the disposal of the beginning student into a procedure for an analysis of social movements and provides that such an analysis give the student experience in recognition of types of argument; in the study of the interaction of ethos, pathos, and logos; in types of evidence; and in other rehtorical concepts. (Author/RB)