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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Kairos and Logos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the 4th logical appeal called Kairos, a time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Kairos and Pathos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on appeals that use both Kairos and Pathos, appeals to emotion (pathos) are more likely to be effective work if they are also timely (kairos).
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Appeals to Pathos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on appeals to pathos; to connect to the audience by evoking emotions or by suggesting that author and audience share attitudes, beliefs, and values.
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Article
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Introduction to Building Common Ground

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This introduction discusses the need for researching your audience and learn strategies to find common ground.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Audience Awareness

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on audience awareness by recognizing and evaluating rhetorical approaches to building common ground. It also provides an example.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Contextual Factors to Consider

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this Boundless Communication presentation, students will learn about contexts to consider when preparing a speech including physical, the psychology of audience, audience opinion of you and topic, and audience knowledge of the topic.
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Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Outlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website focuses on students the importance of having of outlining; it offers links to the discussion of four outlining concepts: Reasons for outlining, the Preparation outline, the Speaking outline, and the Rough Draft outline.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Speaking in the Real World

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn practical tips for speaking in non-academic settings. SL.9-10.6 Adapt to task/formal. CSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.6
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Rehearsing the Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn ways and reasons to rehearse for a speech.
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Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Creating and Using Presentation Note Cards

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module focuses on learning how to create presentation note cards and use them during a speech. The lesson is followed by a quiz.
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Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Intercultural Communication: Gestures

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, students will recognize common gestures and identify the meanings associated with those gestures.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust the organization of your essay to make it appropriate for different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Revising Our Argument for Presentation Part 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will compare and contrast the written form of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" to a live reading of the poem by an actress. Follow-up activities provided.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Argument Part 2

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What an impact delivery can make! Students will compare the written and spoken version of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Included are handouts, examples of student work, and a video of the speech.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will teach you how to write and organize an essay so that it addresses different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
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Handout
Other

Essential Training: Public Speaking Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
From a company that trains business and professional people to speak in public, here are thirty suggestions to help in overcoming speaking anxiety.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Use Rhetoric to Get What You Want

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How do you get what you want, using just your words? Aristotle set out to answer exactly that question over two thousand years ago with a treatise on rhetoric. Camille A. Langston describes the fundamentals of deliberative rhetoric and...
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Handout
Leaf Group

E How: How to Write a Briefing Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article by Jody Hanson explains how to write a briefing paper, a concise communication to keep people up to date on the status of a project and any changes.
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Website
Other

Splendid Speaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Podcasts for advanced English Language Learners who can listen to non-Native speakers having conversations and carrying out short tasks. Examples include Working Together to Reach Agreement, Responding to Questions, and Taking Part in...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Oral Presentation of Favorite Celebrity

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using the Internet to research facts about a favorite celebrity, students gain the organizational and oral presentation skills needed to successfully deliver an effective speech and slideshow presentation.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Effective Interview Questions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explore effective interview questions. By choosing questions that are open-ended and important to them, students can learn great interview skills that can be helpful in future college and job interviews.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: A World of Stories: The Two Warriors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Storyteller Dan Keding tells the tale of the last two warriors on the battlefield who make a connection through sharing their life stories that changes the course of their fighting.
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Article
Other

Ljl Seminars: Impromptu or Extemporaneous Speaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips to help when called on the speak. Suggestions include ideas about the message, delivery, transitions, eye contact and conclusions.
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Article
Other

How to Gesture Effectively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Six rules that apply to anyone seeking to become a dynamic and effective speaker.