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Oral communication Common Core CCRA.W.1 resources
Public Speaking Unit | Speech Curriculum | Lessons & Activities
Everything you need to teach public speaking! This printable and digital bundle is jam-packed with engaging lessons and activities your students will love! The comprehensive and easy to use lessons include directions, examples, rubrics, and more! Save time and build student confidence with this step-by-step curriculum plan! Printable PDF and Google Drive versions for ALL lessons are included. **By purchasing this bundle, you are saving 20% off the full value of the individual resources! You will
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6th - 9th
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Rhetorical Triangle : Persuasive Techniques : Ethos , Pathos , Logos : Rhetoric
Teach rhetorical devices through movement and color-coding! This rhetorical appeal lesson will help students understand Aristotle's rhetorical triangle through a kinesthetic strategy and then will give students a highlighting technique to apply to any rhetorical analysis!No matter the rhetorical writing prompt, reading analysis, or propaganda scrutiny, this color-coding activity proves to be a great way to analyze rhetorical appeals. It works well with English, history, and speech classes. This
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7th - 12th
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The Tell-tale Heart Mock Trial - Edgar Allan Poe - Real life and Speaking Skills
Ignite your students' passion for "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe with this immersive Mock Trial! Turn your classroom into a thrilling courtroom drama where the lines between fiction and reality blur. Prepare for an educational experience that will leave your students spellbound and craving more!Watch as your students step into the shoes of the characters, ready to take on the roles of the narrator, police officers, mental health psychiatrist, and more in a riveting courtroom showdown.
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7th - 10th
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Fun Persuasion Activity - Rhetoric & Persuasive Writing for Middle & High School
This fun persuasion activity can be used as a game to practice persuasion techniques. Students will “sell” a random object to a random fictional group, using rhetorical appeals, rhetorical devices, and/or claim and counterclaim as they craft their argument and decide on an angle for persuasion. This activity promotes team-building and speaking skills!*************************************************Here’s what you’ll receive in this resource:★ Brainstorming Guide & Writing Page (2 Pages) so
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7th - 10th
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How to Debate | Middle School Debating | Lesson and Assignment with Rubric
Students will learn how to run debates in a national style. This middle school language resource demonstrates how to debate in the classroom effectively. I created this resource because, well, teenagers are opinionated. I figured that we might as well try our best to channel their energy into insightful, meaningful debates! This resource is the perfect introductory lesson to debating. Ideal for in-class instruction, my debating resource will help your students practice their writing and verbal c
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7th - 9th
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Fun Persuasive Activities BUNDLE - Rhetoric & Argumentative Writing Activity
Practice persuasion techniques with a set of 5 fun persuasion activities! Students will use rhetorical appeals, rhetorical devices, and/or claim and counterclaim as they convince their target audience! This bundle includes 5 games: 1. "Save this Law" - Students develop an argument for saving a silly law and present to the class. 2. "Complaint Letter" - Students write a fictional complaint letter to share the story behind a faulty object bought with unexpected results.3. "Salesperson" - Students
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7th - 10th
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Fun Persuasive Writing Activity Using Rhetorical Appeals & Devices
Practice argumentative writing & persuasive appeals with a fun persuasion game: Writing a Fictional Complaint Letter. Students will use rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos), rhetorical devices, and/or claim and counterclaim as they create the story behind a faulty object bought with unexpected results!*************************************************Here’s what you’ll receive in this resource:★ Brainstorming Guide & Writing Page (2 Pages) so that students can purposefully plan to pe
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7th - 10th
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Project Based Learning Bioethics Debate Presentation Genetics Evolution Ecology
Project-based learning is “a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge” from BIE . The Bioethics Debate allows students to choose a side from an extensive list of bioethical topics and work with a partner to research and present both sides of the ethical problem. The project can be introduced by showing the movie Gattaca but is not required.
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8th - 12th
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HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-4
, HS-ETS1-1
PUBLIC SPEAKING Course | Semester Speech Curriculum | Communication Classes
Want to teach your secondary public speaking students with confidence? Speech classes are a blast to teach, but only if you're comfortable with the material and the processes. I've taught public speaking at the high school and college levels for 23 years, and I've created the course I wish I'd had when I started.From organizing the course in Google Classroom to assessing formal presentations, this resource has it all. Wondering what to do when you have a sub? I have you covered. Want to know my
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9th - 12th
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Fun Persuasion Activity Using Rhetorical Appeals & Rhetorical Devices
Practice using rhetorical appeals and rhetorical devices with a fun persuasive writing activity: creating a "pitch" to save a "silly" law. Students will use persuasive writing techniques as they convince their audience that this law should remain in effect.*************************************************Here’s what you’ll receive in this resource:★ Brainstorming Guide & Writing Page (2 Pages) so that students can purposefully plan to persuade their target audience (lawmakers and citizens) a
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7th - 10th
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A Person I Admire Guided Planning for Essay or Talk Preparation
This pack guides students in a focused study of a person a student admires or looks up to. Quick print, low-prep!Includes...Materials for starting discussion around the concept of admirationPlanning and research sheets in questionnaire formatBody biography diagram and guided promptsAccompanying PowerPoint...plus a previous version with editable Word documents and Google forms.You might also like...Six Word Memoir | Icebreaker | Differentiated | Middle and High SchoolPeer Assessment Carousel | Es
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5th - 8th
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Ethos Pathos Logos Rhetorical Appeals Test
Teaching rhetorical devices, such as ethos, pathos, and logos? Hold your students accountable with the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Rhetorical Appeals Test. This Common Core-aligned assessment will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic in identifying rhetorical devices, an important ELA argumentative literary skill. Multiple choice questions simulate those found on actual standardized tests. Product can be used for common assessments throughout your team or
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Bundle
The Tell-Tale Heart Mock Trial
Assembled here are eight individual resources used with 8th graders to conduct a mock trial based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”. For my classes, this was a major-fun!- culminating project in the 2nd trimester. However, I think it could easily be adapted to other purposes, including part of an existing unit on mock trials or a short project within a short story unit.
The key skills addressed with this unit are using evidence from text to build and make an argument, as well as speak
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8th - 12th
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Slogans and Advertisements Ads Lesson Unit ELA Middle or High School EDITABLE
This lesson is WAY MORE than just a one-day lesson. It can be spread over a week or more. It is all on Google Slides. It can be used bydistributing it to everyone, or as a whole-class presentation. Teach your students the basic elements of ads, and how to create one with a target audience in mind. It is ideally for middle school or junior high but could be easily adapted to high school. It is completely editable so you can make it work for your students. I included the answers to the questions t
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6th - 10th
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Hatchet Novel Unit with Anticipation Guide, Worksheets, Charts, Tests, and More
Experience Brian's Robeson's adventures in the wilderness with this relevant and important material. This comprehensive packet contains: an anticipation guide to prepare students for reading the story.two complete vocabulary units with words from Hatchet, including their parts of speech, review worksheets with answer keys, and vocabulary tests with answer keys.a mood chart with answer key.a motivation chart with answer key.a conflict chart and answer key. a figurative language chart (idioms, sim
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4th - 9th
Cynthia Lord's Rules: Comprehensive Novel Unit with Worksheets, Tests, and Vocab
This literary packet Rules! Located inside is an anticipation guide to prepare students for reading the story; a complete vocabulary unit from Rules, with 20 words, their parts of speech, a review worksheet with an answer key, and a vocabulary test with an answer key; 25 Socratic seminar/class discussion questions to elicit opinions from students about the book; a mood chart with an answer key; a character chart with an answer key; a 75-point test with matching, true-false, multiple choice, and
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4th - 9th
IB/MYP ELA Persuasive Writing; Speeches full Unit with student workbook + plans
MYP Persuasive Speech Writing Unit This common core and MYP aligned English language arts unit of study contains everything you need to teach persuasive writing to your middle and high school students in digital format or face-to-face teaching.There are 8 files in the zipped download.- An detailed and editable 33 slide PowerPoint with all lessons included- A student workbook- Editable lesson plan for this unit- An editable unit overview aligned to common core standards and MYP criteria- Formativ
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6th - 8th
Discuss, Debate, Write: Texting & Ethics Topic for Grades 6-12
Discuss, Debate, Write: Texting & Ethics Topic for Grades 6-12
This lesson is designed to be a one period activity focused on speaking & listening skills. Students will discuss, debate, and write about what they would do if they received an inappropriate image of a classmate on their cell phone. Students will form their own opinions, debate with a small group, and reflect on the activity. The lesson can easily be extended into an argument essay or real world research.
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*PowerP
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6th - 12th
Writing & Public Speaking: The Persuasive Speech
See even your most shy students shine when you assign a Persuasive Speech! Even though we have sadly done away with our Public Speaking elective, we still love to add a persuasive speech to our curriculum. It fits ANYWHERE and always is a hit! In this product, you will teach the basics of Monroe's Motivated Sequence for persuasive speech writing in addition to helpful tips from the expert himself, Patrick Henry (you know, "Give me liberty or give me death!"). The students will write a speech, de
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Murder Mystery 3 Pack: Build Classroom Culture and Argument and Reasoning Skills
Strengthen your students' interpersonal skills, as they work in small groups to solve a murder, and their argumentative writing, as they sift through police files, evidence and interviews to build a case against a suspect.Procedurally, for each mystery, you play a video that introduces the characters and victim (a vlogger, a singer, or a student). Then teams of 3-4 students work together in specific roles: they'll argue over their strongest evidence, determine what conclusions they can draw, an
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7th - 12th
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Mock Trial: Ban Social Media for Teens? 4 lessons on argument (Google/more)
Engage students in the current controversy over social media, with this mock trial. Is social media making students more depressed and violent? Or is it making them more connected, less lonely? What does the current evidence say?Students will develop a deep understanding of argumentative concepts and vocabulary, including claim, evidence, and rebuttal, as they have serious fun running the trial themselves.Procedurally, they read a myriad of texts on the benefits and dangers of social media; u
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7th - 12th
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School Issues Task Cards Perspective Point of View and Essay CCSS Grade 4-7
Enhance your classroom discussions with these twelve comprehensive task cards focused on school issues, essay writing, and the fundamentals of civics. These cards are designed to:Introduce the concepts of perspective and point of view.Prompt critical thinking on real-world school issues.Illuminate the intricate process behind decision-making.Provide an immersive "step into my shoes" experience.Nurture respectful and responsible school citizenship.Merge academic rigor with engaging activities.Thi
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4th - 7th
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Mock Trial: Death Penalty - 4 lessons on improving arguments (Google/more)
Allow students to seriously question capital punishment or the death penalty, with this mock trial. Does the death penalty deter crime? Is it cruel and unusual? What does the evidence and current research say? Students will develop a deep understanding of argumentative concepts and vocabulary, including claim, evidence, and rebuttal, as they have serious fun running the trial themselves.Procedurally, they read a myriad of texts on the death penalty; use graphic organizers and tools to improv
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7th - 12th
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Mock Trial: Should we stop AI? - 4 lessons on improving arguments (Google/more)
Engage students in the current controversy over artificial intelligence (AI), with this mock trial. Will AI destroy jobs and livelihoods? Is it a game-changer, for instance for people with special needs? What does the currently available evidence say?Students will develop a deep understanding of argumentative concepts and vocabulary, including claim, evidence, and rebuttal, as they have serious fun running the trial themselves. Procedurally, they read a myriad of texts on the threats and be
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7th - 12th
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