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Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
Read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
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Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)
Read carefully in order to identify diction, tone, and irony, and evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.
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Texas Gateway: Syntax (English Ii Reading)
Evaluate the role of syntax in literary non-fiction such as speeches, essays, and other forms.
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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.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Elements of Speech Communication
This lesson discusses the elements of speech communication including the speaker, message, types of channels, audience, and feedback.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Introduction to Persuasive Speaking
This lesson focuses on persuasive speaking including identifying the qualities, components, goals, and ethics of persuasive speaking.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Getting the Most Out of a Persuasive Speech
This lesson focuses on presenting a good persuasive speech. It discusses the selective exposure theory, kinds of appeals, and expectations.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Evidentiary Appeals
This lesson plan focuses on the use of evidentiary appeals in persuasive speeches including definition, evaluating your evidence, and strategies for using evidence effectively. Click on next at the bottom right to continue.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Main Points
This lesson focuses on choosing the main points of your speech based on your audience and purpose. It also discusses ordering and highlighting your main points using visual and textual cues and using a variety of examples.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Language
This lesson focuses on understanding the language, both verbal and non-verbal, of your speech. It discusses the importance of language, word choice, purpose and audience, ways of thinking about language, venue and occasion, and delivery.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Using Language Effectively
This lesson focuses on using language effectively in your speech including using clear words and phrases, defining key terms, writing descriptively, using vivid language, considering your style and tone, and determining and addressing...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Bias in Language
This lesson plan focuses on bias in language such as gender and cultural bias and how to avoid them in public speaking. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.e
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Interaction in Public Speaking
This lesson focuses on interacting with your audience when delivering a presentation including direct questions and answers and body language.
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Lumen: Critical Reading: Reading Strategies
This lesson focuses on reading strategies including scanning, skimming, SQ3R, High-5 Reading Strategies, technology, and rhetorical context. It includes text information and videos.
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Lumen: Writing Process: Prewriting
This lesson focuses on prewriting including the purpose and characteristics of prewriting, prewriting strategies, the rhetorical context, and developing a working thesis statement. It also includes a slide show about author, audience,...
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Lumen: Critical Reading: Conclusion to Critical Reading
This lesson focuses on the importance and purpose of reading. It features an article entitled "The Benefits of Leisure Reading."
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Purdue University Owl: Introductions, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusions
This handout focuses on what an exploratory or inquiry paper is and how to write the introduction including the questions you need to answer and setting the context, stating why the main idea is important, and stating your research...
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Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Rhetorical Context
This lesson focuses on rhetorical context including defining it, questions to ask to understand it, and how it can be useful to the reader and responder.
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Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Putting It Together: Rhetorical Reading
This is a summary of the previous lessons having to do with rhetorical reading including rhetorical context, previewing text, actively reading, using context clues, and reading voraciously.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Conclusions
This lesson plan focuses on strategies for writing effective conclusions. It provides a list of strategies and a sample essay.
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Lumen: Putting It Together: Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay
This lesson focuses on strategies for moving essay writing beyond the five-paragraph essay structure to one whose structure is determined by the content. W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Key Sentences
This lesson focuses on effective paragraph construction especially topic sentences.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Logic in Paragraphs
This lesson focuses on logic in paragraphs including logic, structure, rank order, and organization.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Revising Paragraphs
This lesson focuses on evaluating the structure of paragraphs and revising them.