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Lumen: Analysis: Rhetorical Analysis
This lesson focuses on defining rhetorical analysis and identifying and applying different types of analytic processes. It also provides a practice activity.
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Lumen: Analysis: Process Analysis
This lesson focuses on process analysis including processes by people, machines, and nature. They can be classified as descriptive and prescriptive. It also includes a practice activity.
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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.
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Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Manipulative Appeals to Pathos
This lesson focuses on the manipulative appeals to pathos, trying to unfairly play upon the audience's feelings and emotions through fallacious, misleading, or excessively emotional appeals.
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Lumen: Using Sources: Bringing Sources Into the Conversation
This lesson focuses on identifying the five components of the "source sandwich:" transition and introduction; a signal phrase; quotation, paraphrase, or summary; citation, and explanation of material's relevance. A practice exercise is...
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Common Logical Fallacies
This lesson focuses on logical fallacies including defining them, discussing the different types of logical fallacies, and a practice activity.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Spotting Logical Fallacies
This lesson focuses on recognizing common logical fallacies and evaluating them in texts. It also provides a practice exercise.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Introduction to Building Common Ground
This introduction discusses the need for researching your audience and learn strategies to find common ground.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Audience Analysis
This lesson focuses on audience analysis and recognizing rhetorical approaches to building common ground. A practice activity is provided.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Audience Awareness
This lesson focuses on audience awareness by recognizing and evaluating rhetorical approaches to building common ground. It also provides an example.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Tone, Language, and Appeal
This lesson plan focuses on using tone, language, and appeal to recognize and evaluate rhetorical approaches to building common ground. RI.9-10.4 word meanings/impact of choice
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Formula for Refutation and Rebuttal
This lesson focuses on the formula for refuting and rebutting counterarguments including accurately representing opposing viewpoints, using a respectful, non-incendiary tone, using reliable information, using qualifying words to aid...
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Further Your Understanding: Refutation and Rebuttal
This lesson plan focuses on examples of rebuttal and refutation to improve your understanding.
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Introduction to Types of Sources
This is an introduction to evaluating sources and the types of sources available.
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Scholarly vs. Non Scholarly Sources
This lesson focuses on types of sources including scholarly vs. non-scholarly sources and print, online, and multimedia.
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Craap Analysis of Print Sources
This lesson focuses on evaluating print sources using CRAAP Analysis: Currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. A practice exercise is included. W.9-10.8 Sources
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Introduction to Online Sources
This is an introduction to evaluate methods to assess the quality of online sources. Click the next button on the right bottom.
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Craap Analysis of Online Sources
This lesson plan focuses on evaluating online sources using the CRAAP Analysis: Currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. A practice exercise is provided. SL.9-10.2 eval & integrate sources
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Introduction to Multimedia Sources
An introduction to methods of evaluating multimedia sources.
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Craap Analysis of Multimedia Sources
This activity focuses on evaluating multimedia sources using the CRAAP Analysis: Currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. Click on the NEXT button on the bottom right for more information. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate sources
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Lumen: Using Sources: Mla Works Cited
This lesson focuses on creating a Works Cited page using the MLA format including page numbers, title, spacing, alphabetical order, and hanging indents. An example is provided. Click the Next button at the bottom right for detailed "in...
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Lumen: Using Source: Mla in Text Citations
This lesson focuses on how to use MLA in-text (or parenthetical) citations including examples and non-examples and a detailed flow chart of when and how to use them. L.9-10.3a Standard Format
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Lumen: Using Sources: Practice: Citing Sources
This is a practice exercise in citing sources. W.11-12.8 Sources/Integrate/Cite
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Lumen: Using Sources: Using Online Citation and Reference Tools
This lesson focuses on using online citation tools and being aware that they make mistakes that must be corrected. W.9-10.8 Sources