Library of Congress
Loc: The Great Gatsby: Primary Sources From the Roaring Twenties
In order to appreciate historical fiction, students need to understand the factual context and recognize how popular culture reflects the values, mores, and events of the time period. Since a newspaper records significant events and...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Contextual Factors to Consider
This lesson focuses on contextual factors to consider when analyzing your audience including physical contexts, values, beliefs, attitudes, and needs, audience opinion of you and your topic, and audience knowledge of your topic.
Curated OER
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Excerpt from Horatio Alger's well-known novel that describes the values and attitudes needed to make it in the capitalistic, urban America of the late-nineteenth century.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Employability Skills
[Free Registration/Login Required] Through this PowerPoint presentation students will be provided information to understand the importance of attitudes, values, and communication expected in the job world.
University of Florida
U of Florida: Baldwin Library of Children's Literature
Digitization of Ruth Baldwin's 40-year collection of children's literature provides the user a glimpse into childhood memories. Literature primarily from the 19th and 20th century. Searching on a vast array of titles, such as Alice in...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Appeals to Pathos
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.