This instructional activity focuses on bias in language such as gender and cultural bias and how to avoid them in public speaking. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.e

This lesson focuses on interviewing including preparing for an interview, conducting an interview, and how to use and cite an interview.

This lesson focuses on internet research including how to find information on the internet, the types of materials on the internet, and how to evaluate sources found on the internet.

This lesson plan focuses on analyzing your audience including the benefits of understanding your audience, what to look for, how to identify with your audience, and tips for the speaker.

This lesson asks students to identify the strengths of Eisenhower's persuasive speech about military spending. A link to the audio version of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's speech "Chance for Peace" on April 16, 1953.

The objective of this site is to guide young scholars through a self-directed exploration of pioneer life in reference to the book, "My Antonio." Students will have an opportunity to work on combining the study of history and literature...

This lesson focuses on demographic factors to consider when analyzing your audience including age, generations, gender, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, and race, education, religion, and group member.

This lesson focuses on understanding listening including defining active listening, the five stages of the listening process, listening and critical thinking, and the four main barriers to effective listening.

This activity focuses on the five stages of listening: receiving stage, understanding stage, evaluating, stage, responding stage and remembering stage.

This activity focuses on barriers to listening including cultural differences, gender, and technological distractions.

This lesson focuses on emotional appeals in persuasive speeches including defining emotional appeals, their purpose, examples, components, and production. It also discusses the ethical use of emotional appeals and manipulation.

This lesson focuses on the do's and don'ts of using visual aids.

This lesson focuses on using examples to increase audience understanding of your speech including three types of examples: brief, extended, and hypothetical and how to use examples to help your audience understand the message.

This lesson focuses on using statistics in your speeches including understanding statistics, common misunderstandings of statistics, guidelines for helping your audience understand statistics, and using visual tools for incorporating...

This lesson focuses on interacting with your audience when delivering a presentation including direct questions and answers and body language.

This activity focuses on how to write a literary criticism, the different theories and approaches to literary criticism, and their standard format.

This lesson plan focuses on the Romantic Period's essayists and poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, the Brahmin Poets, and more.

This lesson focuses on using databases: periodical indexes and abstracts including the differences between periodical and journals, selecting the right number of keywords, and full-text databases.

This lesson focuses on how to find, evaluate, and use primary and secondary sources using printed and online sources. It provides practice writing activities such as examining the same topic through primary and secondary sources and...

This lesson focuses on reader-response literary criticism including the purpose of reader response, the structure of a reader-response essay, how to criticize with examples, and an example of a reader-response essay using "The Secret...