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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Issues
This lesson is an introduction to contemporary issues in today's literature and the use of propaganda and persuasion.
Other
Jiskha: Persuasive Techniques
Short definitions of techniques that persuade: bandwagon, glittering generality, and more.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Critical Reading: Logic and Structure
This lesson plan focuses on structure and logic including types and purposes of essays, organizational patterns, argumentative writing, and logic and fallacies.
Other
Ed u.com: Three Fundamentals of Selling Your Message
This site is provided for by Ed-U.com. Based on the Greek ideas of ethos, logos, and pathos the writer addresses how to adequately persuade an audience.
Other
Examples of Persuasive Business Writing
Web page offering brief examples of effective persuasion in business writing. The message here is: convince your audience that your product is perfect for them.
Arizona State University
Asu: Chicana and Chicano Space
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Jane Austen Mansfield Park
At this website, read the full textr of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park." Novel's chapters are preceded by a brief paragraph introcuding the novel, its characters, and its major events.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Here, read all 31 chapters of Jane Austen's novel, "Northanger Abbey." This website includes a brief paragraph introducing the novel, its characters, and plot.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Jane Austen Lady Susan
Here, read the full text of Jane Austen's epistolary novel, "Lady Susan." Included is a brief paragraph introducing the text and its major characters.
Read Works
Read Works: Author's Purpose 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan unit on author's purpose. In the first lesson plan, students practice identifying the author's purpose as to entertain, to persuade, or to inform. In the second lesson plan, students...
Library of Congress
Loc: Thomas Jefferson's Library: The Case for a National Library
Learners examine a letter written by Thomas Jefferson and identify techniques he used to persuade Congress to purchase his personal library. Students consider a selection of Jefferson's books and then write their own persuasive letters...
Other
Ad Cracker
In this website students can learn to create an international advertising agency. They will learn to write a brief, create a brand and position the product. They will also be introduced to the fundamentals of creative writing as well as...
University of South Florida
University of South Florida: Fcat Express: Author's Purpose Activity
Practice identifying author's purpose by recognizing the purpose in titles, understanding the difference between fact and opinion, and identifying the purpose of various forms of writing.
Other
Web Quest: Little House on the Prairie: Grades 4 6
This WebQuest (internet based project) asks students to "Persuade people that they should build a museum about Laura Ingalls Wilder in 'your state.'"
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Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Tools of Persuasion [Pdf]
A slide presentation giving an explanation and example of nine different persuasive techniques including appeal to emotion, appeal to authority, urgency, and more.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
During this unit, students will learn about many different advertising techniques. Students will investigate the "art of rhetoric" and analyze many print, television, and online advertisements. Using the site's online tools, groups will...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Cause & Effect With "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears" Day 4
We are finishing up the story today. Today we are finishing analyzing the story by thinking about how the events and characters developed by the end of the text.
Arizona State University
Chicana and Chicano Space: Inquiry
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Truth in Advertising
Interactive lesson and activities for learning to look critically at the persuasive techniques of advertisements promoting political candidates and products.
Other
Object of History: Rallying Revolutionaries: "Common Sense"
Annotated excerpts from Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" that clearly demonstrate the writer's ability to persuade his American readers to separate from England.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis
Contains plans for eight lessons that ask students to put characters from a work of literature on trial. This lesson uses Shakespeare's "The Tempest" as an example, but this concept can be applied to other works as well. In addition to...
BBC
Bbc: Bitesize History: The Chartists
Explains who the Chartists were and their first efforts to try to persuade the British Parliament to enact reforms for the working class. Their three petitions failed to move Parliament but increased the resolve of others to push for...