Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 12: Undaunted Courage
Students explore ideas prominent throughout westward expansion and American literature: myth versus reality. The texts present various perspectives of the West. Students consider the idealism and romance of the American spirit versus the...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Rhetoric
Students engage with texts that have persuasive power and examine how argument is created. The variety of texts allows students to evaluate the impact of occasion and audience upon the use of rhetorical appeals in a variety of media....
Boston University
Boston University: Putting Value Into Art
Andrew Ward decides to get into the middle of an argument between David Hume and Hume's critic Malcolm Budd about the standard for assessing the value of works of art upon the feeling of pleasure or displeasure. This topic will be a...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 12: Gulliver's Travels
Students continue to learn that people use the written word to express their thoughts and ideas about social issues and attempt to persuade others to do the same. They will explore advanced rhetorical devices, including satire and...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 9: Fahrenheit 451
Students explore the power of written language to educate and influence others. They read various argumentative essays and engage in virtual collaboration to develop their own arguments. They also research a self-generated question...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 8: The Call of the Wild
This unit explores human interaction with animals and nature. The literary texts illustrate various encounters between humans and animals from the perspective of both sides. Students learn how different points of view help readers...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Using Tableau to Explore Physical & Chemical Changes [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 5th graders explore how to use tableaux to dramatize physical and chemical changes, and add dialogue to the tableaux to support their argument of whether the change is physical or chemical.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: Steve Jobs
Sixth graders will explore the role of failure in finding success. In this set, 6th graders learn that success takes hard work, deliberate practice, and the ability to learn from failures and persevere. Students explore how an author's...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Contemplation and Argumentation
In this self-guided unit, you will read Romantic and Transcendental literature and you will practice the art of persuasion using rhetorical devices, appeals, and refutation while avoiding logical fallacies. By the end of the unit, you...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Music as a Language
Can learning to make music be as unstructured as learning to speak as a small child? Bassist Victor Wooton makes that argument in this TED Ed talk. Free registration is required to receive full access to the the complete lessons.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Argument Over a Card Game
An image of "Argument over a Card Game", created by Jan Steenz (Oil on canvas, 90 x 119 cm).
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, sage writer and philosopher. He is best known for his book Walden, a...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Writing Paragraphs
This site from the University of Ottawa provides a wonderfully designed website that not only gives you exhaustive information on paragraph writing. Students will engage in starting with outlines, writing topic sentences, dividing their...
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Aristotle's Logic
Thorough explanation of Aristotle's several original contributions to logic from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Includes a substantial bibliography as well as sections on syllogism, assertion, demonstration, the "Organon,"...