The Art of Persuasion - Persuading the Audience

This plan centers around the article "How Advertisers Persuade," although it is not included in the lesson itself. Get your class thinking about advertising, appeals, and techniques that companies use to get their products from the shelf...

Use a quick bell-ringer to interest your class in the art of persuasion. They brainstorm where they find examples of persuasion in their lives and identify who is trying to persuade them. Then they either fish through magazines or look...

You won't need much persuading to use an argumentative writing packet in your language arts class! With helpful reference pages, guided practice through the writing process, examples of opinion and argument writing, and a thorough...

Rhetoric from Aristotle (logos, pathos, and ethos) to the rhetorical triangle (audience, speaker, subject) and SOAPSTone (speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, tone) here’s a presentation about the art of rhetoric that will...

What does it take to persuade people? Aristotle has famously summarized rhetoric as three means of persuasion: logos, ethos, and pathos. Watch as these elements are explained in detail, and prompt your class to consider how to build the...

Introduce your class to persuasive writing with. After a think-pair-share activity, class members get together in groups and listen to a persuasive essay, taking notes as they follow along. Using AlphaSmarts, or any other word processing...

If Christmas is around the corner, and the kids are itching for some holiday fun, use this lesson to review persuasion and letter writing. Kids use the brainstorm worksheet (included) to think about presents they'd like to receive. When...

Introduce your class members to allegory and propaganda with a series of activities designed to accompany a study of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Readers examine the text as an allegory, consider the parallels to collective farms and the...

Students understand that writers utilize various techniques to persuade an audience. They develop an awareness of how the media works to persuade them as the consumer. They create a visual representation of various feelings and emotions...

Young scholars focus on the concept of allegory by using George Orwell's, "Animal Farm." The similarities and differences of allegories and metaphors. The length of the piece is the substantial difference which is exemplified in this...