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Common Core CCRA.W.1 resources for Prezi
Argument in the real world: a PSA campaign with open letter and radio PSA
***Fully revamped 8/2020***In this partner/individual project, students create a PSA campaign - an open letter and a radio public service announcement - about a cause they care about. At the end, they present their cause, a summary of their letter, and their PSA to the class.This project is awesome for Common Core, as it covers a range of tasks including reading informational text, writing in different contexts, speaking and listening, and demonstrating an understanding of language!A Prezi intro
Grades:
7th - 12th
Expository Research Project Group Presentation Rubric
-This can be used for group presentations about a topic.
-It is made for group presentations and it makes grading presentations SO EASY and ENJOYABLE!
-It is used as a checklist as each student presents and then they receive their own score, based on their individual presentation and the peer feedback.
When they are done, the scores are ready to be added to the grade book.
-Aligns to CCSS for 8th grade ELA, but can easily be adapted to any other standards or grades.
-There is also an ide
Grades:
6th - 12th
Means of Persuasion: Ethos, Pathos and Logos (intro to rhetoric)
This Prezi highlights means of persuasion: ethos, pathos, and logos. This entire activity is intended for whole class instruction that transition to group or individual student work. By the end of this lesson students will have a basic foundation of the Means of Persuasion.
Part 1: Notes or discussion
Defintions of terms, short background on Aristotle
Part 2: Whole class check for understanding
Read arguments and class decides if the means of persuasion is ethos, pathos, and logo (answers h
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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AQA Functional Skills in English: Level 1 Unit - Climate Change Crisis
This engaging and fully resourced unit of work is designed to teach some of the key skills required for tacking the AQA Functional Skills Level 1 English exam paper. It is built around the topic of the climate crisis.There are two sections:Reading section – exploration of three different non-fiction texts including a letter, web pages and a blog.Writing section – focus on writing a persuasive letter and a blogThis includes a 55 slide teaching PPT as well as a set of detailed teacher’s notes and
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Grades:
9th - 10th
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Also included in: AQA Functional Skills in English: Level 1 Complete Course *NEW*
Writing Essay Introductions: A Strong Thesis Sentence in an Engaging Context
3-frame GIF describes a Toulmin-type thesis sentence and includes such an example; also lists 12 ways to set the tone/context/value of the argument; such as scene-setting, asking a question, quoting someone, etc. Image size 960×720 (file size 322 KB). Can be used as an animated-graphic slide within a PPT presentation about essay writing (PPT must be in Slide-Show mode to activate the slow, looping animation) or as a non-animated graphic in a handout; can be resized as needed. Note: You can pause
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Distance Learning -Writers on Twitter: A Rhetorical Analysis
This six page resource is an independent assignment I give to my AP Language students and sometimes my senior honors. As Twitter can be controversial, I suggest older students and following the writers you suggest as well. Note, there are no overtly "political writers" on my list but some of the writers suggested have political leanings and I let students know this in advance (and why I let them have a full 48 hours before selecting their writer of study). Typically, I assign this over the cour
Grades:
11th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: AP Language and Composition Rhetoric Bundle
Writing Essay Conclusions: Six Strategies Similar to Closure in a Story
GIF compares 6 ways to end an essay with 5 ways to resolve a story: restatement and manifesting a moral; anecdotal scene and natural termination/encapsulation; hook-and-return and completion of antithesis; pan-to-larger perspective and manifesting a moral; proposal and solution to central problem; and delayed thesis and manifesting a moral. Image size 960×720 (file size 765 KB). Can be used as a 7-frame animated-graphic slide within a PPT presentation about essay writing or short stories or movi
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Toulmin Argument Model: claim, data, warrant/backing, counter-claim/rebuttal
This slightly revised model of rational argument adds a backbone of the scientific method and also replaces Qualifier with Counter-Claim (per Purdue OWL). Slow-animated GIF highlights/describes argument parts and how they work together to persuade a critical thinker. You can test your argument essay against these standards of rational persuasion or use the model to design/outline a powerfully persuasive essay (persuasive at least for critical thinkers). Image size 960×720, file size 843 KB for u
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Thesis Sentence: whole-brain style & substance to focus & sell your argument
This animated GIF highlights 5 essential factors of thesis sentence: Specific/concise, Meaningful, Summarize left- and/or right brain arguments, Easy to find (top-down), and Clear/professional style/grammar. Students will write clearer essays if they develop a habit-of-mind to consider all five of these factors in their thesis sentence. Image size 960×720 (file size 866 KB) for use as a full-size PowerPoint slide. Each of 7 frames lasts 6 seconds (if embedded in a PPT, it must be in Slide-Show m
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
“Cumulative sentence” improves “We the people” readability—sentence diagram
A big thought may need a long sentence, but human awareness is limited to 4–7 chunks of information. A cumulative-generative sentence starts with the subject AND predicate and then adds modifying phrases after that. This kind of word-ordering allows the reader’s mind to pause and super-chunk the first part, and then add the supplemental ideas. The original “We the people…” sentence separates the subject and predicate and makes it more difficult for the reader to process the thought—the mind’s sh
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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What’s Happening? Asking questions is the beginning of wisdom—not fearing...
4-frame animated GIF shows how questions Who, What, Where, When, How, Why, and What if/else/about? or Whether A–Z or Σ? can help students progress from facts to analysis to wisdom—curiosity (and a deeper dialogue with others and reality) is a habit of mind worth developing. Image size 960×720 (file size 511 KB). Can be used as an animated-graphic slide within a PPT presentation about essay writing or critical thinking (PPT must be in Slide-Show mode to activate the slow, looping animation) or as
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Not Grade Specific
Occam’s Razor and Corollary for Writing: Use enough words but not too many
This animated GIF adapts an efficiency theorem for scientific explanations to the art of writing and gives some hints to help determine whether you are wasting words or leaving holes in your argument. Includes examples of NEEDY writing (unclear because important words or ideas are missing), WEEDY writing (with unnecessary and distracting words), and PITHY-THRIFTY writing (says all the important stuff without any fluff). Image size 960×720 (file size 904 KB) for use within a PowerPoint slide show
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
What should I write about? Maslow☺Bloom☺Eleanor Roosevelt’s “Great minds…”
Writers of essays, stories, songs, etc. nobly search for meaning, the deeper the better. But how do you measure/qualify “meaningful”? Abraham Maslow and Benjamin Bloom modeled values of life and learning with pyramid layers of meaning that build higher meanings from the layers below. A writer can climb the pyramid and discuss issues all the way up; however, if most readers are already halfway up, it makes sense to climb upwards from there and talk about ascending to even greater heights of deepe
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Flow Diagram of Essay-Writing: from Idea to Word Level with feedback loops
Animated GIF shows writer’s reflective process with feedback loops through stages of observation, hypothesis, feasibility, tentative design, revisions as needed and then on to the actual words-on-paper (or computer) stage with both revision and proofreading steps before sharing with other critical thinkers. Image size 960×720 file size 1.08 MB). Can be used as an animated graphic within a PPT presentation about writing (PPT must be in Slide-Show mode to activate the slow, looping animation) or a
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
The Curse of Knowledge: How writers betray (but can also help) their readers
Writers falsely assume that readers share an identical understanding and that just giving readers all the argument pieces will persuade them. Cognitive biases can fool the writer, but remedies exist to help writers break the curse and really reach their readers by avoiding jargon, by giving examples and explanations, and by chunking and super-chunking the information in bite-sized thoughts, etc.This animated GIF includes the academic explanation as well as a cartoon example. Image size 960×720 (
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
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