In this lesson, students watch two videos from China depicting public speeches about the first school government election. Then, they will create and give persuasive presentations of their own that will describe ways in which they would like to improve their school and persuade the audience to agree with their ideas.

Concepts

persuasive speeches

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Additional Tags

school improvement ideas, "public speaking and persuasion: improve your school!", pbs leaning media, first school government election in china, persuasive writing, speeches to persuade

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

SL.8.5