Want to safeguard your students against peer pressure? Teach them all about rhetorical appeals, common attack methods, and various argument tones with a reference sheet on persuasive techniques.

Concepts

persuasive techniques, persuasive arguments, rhetoric, rhetorical devices

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use in a forensics class or when beginning a language arts unit on rhetorical appeals
• Have learners watch a series of commercials or bring in printed advertisements, and see if they can analyze the techniques in each

Classroom Considerations

• Does not include prompts; resource is most effective as a supporting reference guide to another assignment

Pros

• Contains a variety of literary terms and devices for reference
• Each term includes a helpful example

Cons

• None

Common Core

W.9-10.1.a W.11-12.1.a SL.9-10.3 SL.9-10.4 SL.11-12.3 SL.11-12.4