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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Persuasive Strategies and Tuck Everlasting
This lesson is a persuasive strategy lesson plan for Tuck Everlasting. It allows the student to incorporate technology in the development of an original thirty-second commercial.
Other
Propaganda: Common Techniques: Special Appeals: Bandwagon
A brief explanation of the propaganda technique known as bandwagon, bandwagoning, or bandwagon appeal. Also includes a few questions that people can ask themselves in order to gauge whether or not they are falling victim to this technique.
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Don't Buy a Ford Ever Again, Ca. 1960
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an advertisement and some background information and answer questions about comprehension, persuasive techniques, vocabulary, author's purpose, and more. Links to a paired text and paired...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Your Turn Ad
In this persuasive media lesson, students will engage in viewing a Trix cereal advertisement and then engage in the process of "deconstruction" to analyze the use of propaganda techniques to attract customers. Then students will choose...
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.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Logical Fallacies [Pdf]
A slide show explaining different types of fallacies in persuasive texts including personal attack, bandwagon, appeal to authority, and many more. Then try to find the fallacy in several examples; answers and explanations provided.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
During this unit, students will learn about many different advertising techniques. Students will investigate the "art of rhetoric" and analyze many print, television, and online advertisements. Using the site's online tools, groups will...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Tools of Persuasion [Pdf]
A slide presentation giving an explanation and example of nine different persuasive techniques including appeal to emotion, appeal to authority, urgency, and more.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:"closing Arguments: Strategy, Technique & Style" [Pdf]
This is a five-page PDF article "Closing Arguments: Strategy, Technique & Style" by Gary Guichard. The article is about how to write a closing argument for a trial; however, these same techniques help students to write effective...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Lamb to the Slaughter Persuasive Writing [Pdf]
This is a PDF of a persuasive writing assignment for the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl. It asks the students to watch a linked video clip of the closing argument by Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird and apply...
US Census Bureau
Us Census Bureau: The Art of Persuasion: Using Census Data to Influence Others
In this instructional activity, students will incorporate information from the U.S. Census Bureau's QuickFacts data access tool into an advertisement for a city of their choice. They will use persuasive and advertising techniques to...
Other
Fallacy Files: Main Menu
This site contains a wealth of information about logical fallacies (flawed logic) and gives detailed explanations of some of the most common forms, which are listed in a menu along the left hand side of the page. Since many of these...
Other
Fallacies & Pitfalls in Psychology
This page lists and explains 18 of the most commonly used logical fallacies. "The name of each fallacy is followed by a brief description and an example from the field of psychology."
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: I Wanna: Writing a Persuasive Letter
In this instructional activity, students will experiment with word choice as it relates to persuasion.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Persuasive Writing for Summer Reading
A good lesson plan, to be used during the last month of the school year, for motivating students to remain faithful to reading over the summer. Uses strategies such as student-chosen books and persuasive writing techniques.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational/persuasive Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Explain shifts in perspectives in the same argument and make decisions about support used in those arguments.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Don't Eat Me Monologues
In this lesson, students will create a 5-part (introduction, 3 ideas, conclusion) monologue incorporating persuasive techniques and strong word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Three Voice Important Book Passages
A lesson plan made for students to write from various perspectives regarding the same topic. The mentor text entitled The Important Book is used, as students become more familiar with voice, point of view, persuasive techniques and the...
Other
Hamilton: Essentials of Effective Persuasive Essays
This resource provides good insight on how to structure a well organized effective persuasive essay.
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain
The goal of this activity is to understand how techniques of persuasion (including background, supporting evidence, storytelling and the call to action) are used to develop an argument for or against a topic. Students develop an...
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Persuasive Essays
This site focuses on the student learning how to write strong persuasive essays. Strategies are provided to help the student complete a persuasive writing assignment.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising
Contains plans for four lessons that teach about the fallacies used in advertising such as bandwagon appeal, hasty generalizations, red herrings, emotional appeals, and more. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...