Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Introduction to Persuasive Speaking
This lesson focuses on persuasive speaking including identifying the qualities, components, goals, and ethics of persuasive speaking.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating a Persuasive Podcast
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Final Speeches
In this segment from Independent Lens, three candidates for class monitor make a final speech to grab the win.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Free Speech and Persuasion in "Nothing but the Truth"
Contains plans for five lessons that use Avi's "Nothing But the Truth" to teach about free speech and give students an opportunity to develop persuasive arguments. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: John F. Kennedy's Remarks, Berlin [Pdf]
"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...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Frederick Douglass [Pdf]
"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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Guilty or Innocent
A writing lesson using the R.A.F.T. model and the short story "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. Students take on the role of attorneys and write persuasive speeches for the jury proclaiming the narrator's guilt or innocence.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Gettysburg Address [Pdf]
"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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Most Nutritious Election
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.
Other
Uil: Speech and Debate (Texas Only)
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices
Analyze the persuasive impact of rhetorical structures and devices in famous speeches.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Significance of Audience Analysis: Target Populace [Pdf]
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.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Emotional Appeals
This activity 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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Public Speaking and Persuasion: Improve Your School!
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...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: The Value of Sensory Enhancements
This instructional activity focuses on the value of using sensory enhancements in presentations including improving listeners comprehension, choosing the right visual aids, and preparing and understanding your visual aids.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Types of Sensory Enhancements
This lesson focuses on the types of sensory enhancements and how to effectively use them. SL.9-10.2 eval & integrate sources, SL.9-10.5 Audio Visuals
Other
Idea: Debatabase
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....
TES Global
Tes: Schemes of Work: Speaking and Listening
[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.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: Argument, Bias, and Persuasion
Collection of 43 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12)on the topic Argument, Bias, and Persuasion. Have students track arguments through texts as they examine logical reasoning, bias, and persuasive techniques such as emotional appeals, character...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Thinking Skills
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....
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Persuasion: Speak Out: Ain't I a Woman Sojourner Truth[pdf]
This is a PDF file of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech to aid the cause of women's rights. Each line is numbered for easy reference.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Types of Writing: Expository Writing
This lesson focuses on expository writing including definition and characteristics. It provides links to the Discovery Education video: "An Unsinkable Essay," "Expository Essays," "What is Expository Writing?" "Types of Informative...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Rhetorical Landscape
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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