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Your Dictionary: Writing the One Minute Persuasive Speech

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on writing a one-minute persuasive speech force students to be clear and concise and to hone debate skills. From there it suggests the use of improvisation speeches.
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wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Write a Persuasive Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to write a persuasive speech in three parts: Preparing to Write, Writing you Speech, and Delivering your Speech. A video [1 min, 43 secs] and writing tips are also provided.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Types of Public Speeches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the types of public speeches including informative, persuasive, and speeches for special occasions. It also discusses the difference between informative and persuasive speeches. SL.11-12.6 Speaking tasks
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This multi-session lesson features the opportunity to analyze a variety of famous speeches. Students will look carefully at tone, rhetoric, propaganda techniques, and historical context as they write an analysis paper....
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iCivics

I Civics: Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this library of mini-lessons, students will learn how to "argue on paper" or write persuasive essays using a fictional case about a school dress code rule against band t-shirts.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Credibility Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on using credible appeals in persuasive speeches including defining subjective and objective credibility, the types and elements of credibility, and the ethical use of credibility appeals. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Evidentiary Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity 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 Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Logical Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on using logical appeals in persuasive speeches including inductive and deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning and associative reasoning, forming a rational appeal, and errors in reasoning-formal and informal.
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Speak for Success! Persuade! How to Use Body Language in a Persuasive Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains how to use body language in a persuasvie speech. Distinctions are made in the realm of body language as it applies to speaking while standing, sitting, or communicating virtually. SL.9-10.3 Eval Presentation
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Preparing Informative and Persuasive Speeches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives tips on how to organize and prepare a persuasive speech in the most effective way.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Introduction to Persuasive Speaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on persuasive speaking including identifying the qualities, components, goals, and ethics of persuasive speaking.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating a Persuasive Podcast

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson unit has students research a local, state, national, or international issue of personal interest and create and share a two-minute persuasive podcast presenting their research-based opinions on the topic. It includes tools...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Final Speeches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this segment from Independent Lens, three candidates for class monitor make a final speech to grab the win.
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Other

Feminist: Articles and Speeches

For Students 9th - 10th
Various speeches by various speakers on women's history.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: John F. Kennedy's Remarks, Berlin [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"John F. Kennedy: Remarks in the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin" is a one page persuasive speech delivered by JFK on June 26, 1963. In it he commended West Germany in its efforts to have a democratic government and berated the Communists...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Frederick Douglass [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Frederick Douglass on Women's Suffrage," a one page, non-fiction, reading passage, is an excerpt from a persuasive speech delivered by Frederick Douglass to the International Council of Women in Washington, D.C., April 1888 in support...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Guilty or Innocent

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A writing lesson plan using the R.A.F.T. model and the short story "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. Young scholars take on the role of attorneys and write persuasive speeches for the jury proclaiming the narrator's guilt or innocence.
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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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Most Nutritious Election

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will write a persuasive speech for the Fruit or Vegetable of the Year Award. Nutrition information should be incorporated into this cross-curricular lesson.
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Other

Uil: Speech and Debate (Texas Only)

For Students 9th - 10th
Section of the University Interscholastic League's home page dedicated to Speech and Debate information. Included is a wealth of information about participating in speech and debate tournaments and contests. Topics include general...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze the persuasive impact of rhetorical structures and devices in famous speeches.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Significance of Audience Analysis: Target Populace [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 14-page PDF article concerning audience analysis for a persuasive speech. It includes the importance of understanding your audience, methods used to analyze a specific audience, and the five layer of any given audience alalysis.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Emotional Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on emotional appeals in persuasive speeches including defining emotional appeals, their purpose, examples, components, and production. It also discusses the ethical use of emotional appeals and manipulation.
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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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