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TES Global

Tes: Schemes of Work: Speaking and Listening

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This series of lessons will engage students in analyzing the pros and cons of hunting. Students will also develop their own persuasive speeches about corporal punishment.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Gettysburg Address [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
"The Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln is one page, non-fiction speech given at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 18, 1963. It is followed by an assignment asking students to...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Public Speaking and Persuasion: Improve Your School!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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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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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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Other

Idea: Debatabase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The IDEA Debatabase is designed to help high school and college level debaters by providing both pro and con arguments for hundreds of debate topics. These arguments have been prepared by experts in debate, both debaters and judges....
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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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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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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.