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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Thinking Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided course, you will be looking at several pieces of literature in many different forms. This unit will teach you some principles of thinking and learning and how to use basic literary terms in the analysis of literature....
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Primary
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Persuasion: Speak Out: Ain't I a Woman Sojourner Truth[pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a PDF file of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech to aid the cause of women's rights. Each line is numbered for easy reference.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Types of Writing: Expository Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on expository writing including definition and characteristics. It provides links to the Discovery Education video: "An Unsinkable Essay," "Expository Essays," "What is Expository Writing?" "Types of Informative...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Rhetorical Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a unit on the use of rhetoric in speaking or writing to persuade an audience to the desired way of thinking or action. If focuses on rhetorical techniques and the three audience appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos.
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Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Principles of Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the importance of organizing your speech including critically thinking about the contents of the speech, the components of the speech, the patterns of organization to fit the different types of speeches, and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Persuasion Rubric

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A printable four-point rubric to use when assessing a persuasive piece with a focus on organization, a goal or thesis, reasons/support, audience, word choice, visuals/delivery, and grammar/usage/mechanics. Directions on how to use this...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Chicago: Deval Patrick [Pdf]

For Teachers 8th
"Chicago Is a City of Possibilities" is an inauguration speech by Deval Patrick given as he became governor of Massachusetts. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes determining...
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Appeals to Ethos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on appeals to Ethos, When you evaluate an appeal to ethos, how successfully a speaker or writer establishes authority or credibility with his or her intended audience. You ask yourself what elements of the essay or...
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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: Speaking in the Real World

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on providing practical tips for speaking in a non-academic setting such as a wedding, charity event, or interview.
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Activity
Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University: Votes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Pennsylvania State University is a well-developed simulation of a political campaign, containing political information and definitions.
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Website
Other

Ten Rhetoric of War Writing Projects

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Created by a teacher responding to the events in Kosovo, this list is a great start for a media literacy class project. Good discussion-starting questions are included with each item on the list. Requires some independent research to...
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: American Dream: I Have a Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech to talk about the American Dream, word choice, and persuasion.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Motivational Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on motivational appeals and what motivates people including a list of 16 basic motivators, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and Monroe's motivated sequence.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Visions for a New World (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A lesson for exploring the ways in which Kofi Annan has spoken for the weak, poor, and voiceless. Learners analyze a world event and then express a dream or a vision of how the situation could be improved.
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Curated OER

Ny Times Learning Network: Wild Wildlife

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students investigate the moral, economic and ecological impacts of the extinction of various animal species. Students first assess how and why people support and refute actions that lead to the extinction of animals. They...

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