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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: The Importance of Audience Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The first question you should ask yourself, before you begin crafting your speech, is this: "Who is my audience?" As you begin to answer this question for yourself, here are some key elements to consider as you begin to outline and...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: "How to Write a Literary Analysis Essay" [Pdf]

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
This is a nine-page PDF entitled "How to Write a Literary Analysis Essay" which explains in detail the parts of a literary analysis and how to write them.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluate Tone in Various Media for Different Audiences & Purposes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will help you evaluate changes in formality and tone within printed texts written for specific audiences and purposes. It focuses on writing produced during the Great Depression.
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Arizona State University

Arts Work: Visual Arts Criticism

For Teachers 9th - 10th
If you're looking for a complete list of art critique questions, this is the site for you! You'll find ideas for description, analysis, elements, technique, judgement, and audience.
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Other

U.s. Department of Health and Human Services: usability.gov

For Students 9th - 10th
A one-stop resource for government-compiled information on how to develop websites that boost their usability and accessibility based on proven methods of design and audience analysis. With many, many how-tos, such as how to write for...
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Other

The Classroom Electric: Spiders, the Web, and Dickinson & Whitman

For Students 9th - 10th
Based on Emily Dickinson's poem "A Spider sewed at Night" and Walt Whitman's poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider," the authors of this site seek to "explore the nature of creativity, artistry, and audience." They bring together existing...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Unpacking the Sat Essay Prompt

For Students 9th - 10th
The words in the SAT Essay Prompt have been chosen very carefully. What do they all mean? This article provides a detailed analysis of the SAT Essay task.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Soaps Tone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, prepare for writing about texts, and engage in language analysis of...
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US Department of Agriculture

U.s. Department of Agriculture: Choose My Plate

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The U.S. Government's official resource for sound nutritional information points out that eating right can be as simple as increasing some categories of foods while reducing others. Basic information on food groups combined with...
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Other

Fine Arts Museum: Teachers' Guide to American Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This guide focuses on twenty-four paintings from the impressive collection of American art housed at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The earliest work, a portrait of the children of a Puritan family, dates from 1670. The last piece...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dressing the Part

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Dress code requirements in business and school are always a controversial topic. In this project students will research the value of dressing appropriately for a variety of settings to include business and school. They will research...
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Other

Online Library Learning Center: Evaluating Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this "Weed and feed," approach to get only the best resources for your research project.