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Handout
Saylor Academy

Persuasive Techniques

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Want to safeguard your students against peer pressure? Teach them all about rhetorical appeals, common attack methods, and various argument tones with a reference sheet on persuasive techniques.
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Lesson Plan
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

Making a Patriot Inquiry: Are Independence, Freedom, and Liberty the Same Thing?

For Students 5th - 12th Standards
As part of a study of the American Revolution, class members engage in an inquiry-based lesson that has them watch a scene from the play Slave Spy, examine multiple primary source documents, and then discuss the similarities and...
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Unit Plan
Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment

Victorian Historians

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th Standards
Take the class back in time to the Victorian Era! The resource provides a plethora of activities that create experiences for scholars in class. Some activities include a fun fair, viewing the starry-night painting, and even experiencing...
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Activity
PBS

Taking A Field Trip

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Field trips require a great deal of advanced planning to be successful. Ensure the success of your trips with a step-by-step preparation guide that itemizes before, during, and after activities as well as extension and adaptation...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Name is___________.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Read to gain an understanding of the author's intent or purpose. Learners analyze a persuasive text, identify the author's purpose, and evaluate the claims used as support. They then compose a persuasive essay of their own.
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Activity
Curated OER

Formal and Informal Language Resources

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Yo! Check it out. Here's a lesson on formal and informal language. And the packet includes a game. What fun!
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Primary Sources

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners see how to use primary and secondary sources to investigate history. Whether it is a photograph, book, map, letter, postcard, newspaper, or official document, students can use sources to reconstruct and relive history.
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Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities

From Courage to Freedom: Slavery's Dehumanizing Effects

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze slavery and its effects on humanity using Frederick Douglass' autobiography. In this slavery instructional activity, students analyze instances of reality and romanticized myth using a slave narrative. Learners explore...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

From Courage to Freedom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze Frederick Douglass' narrative about Christianity and slavery. In this Frederick Douglass lesson, young scholars read his slave narrative and analyze its word choice, imagery, irony, and rhetorical appeals. Learners...

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