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Common Core RI.11-12.9 independent work packets
Your New Playlist Student Guide
A student study-guide for Jon Acuff's book Your New Playlist. This student guide provides processing tools, action steps, and repetition for your students.
Grades:
6th - 12th
What to the Slave is Fourth of July and Rhetoric
This resource focuses on analyzing Frederick Douglass's renowned speech, "What to the Slave is Fourth of July." Students will engage in activities such as reviewing concept vocabulary, exploring Douglass's life, reading background information on the speech, and answering close reading questions. They will also identify and analyze examples of ethos, pathos, and logos, define unfamiliar terms, and identify Douglass's main argument and call to action. In the extended version of this resource, stud
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Rhetoric in American Speeches: Henry, Paine, Lincoln, and Douglass
Donald Trump's Victory Speech Rhetorical Analysis
PRINTABLE independent work packet with rhetorical analysis activities. You will have a rigorous and engaging lesson aligned to standards on reading informational texts. Students will love analyzing Donald Trump's arguments and persuasive techniques. A great lesson on current events.In this activity, students will...1. Compare Donald Trump's word choices to past presidential speeches2. Read and annotate Donald Trump's victory speech3. Analyze and criticize Donald Trump's arguments through key wor
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â Donald Trump Rhetorical Analysis Reading Comprehension Printable Worksheets
Presidential Speeches Rhetorical Annotations & Analysis Bundle!
Informational and argumentative texts are without a doubt incredibly important within English 2, on the state test, and within high school English classes in general. As a teacher, I hate how even I sometimes resent informational texts, argumentative texts, and teaching rhetoric in general for being bland and "boring." My approach to teaching rhetoric is to make it as fun and engaging as it can possibly be while still being incredibly effective and standards based! I always start my informationa
Grades:
8th - 12th
Patrick Henry's Speech to the Convention rhetorical appeals ethos, pathos, logos
Help students work through Patrick Henry's Speech to the convention and analyze his use of rhetorical appeals - ethos, pathos, and logos - as well as other specific persuasion techniques. This resource explains the broad categories of rhetorical appeals, gives examples of specific persuasion techniques for each category, incorporates options for various online games to reinforce the terms, and offers an opportunity for students to analyze their use in one of the formative texts of American liter
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Donald Trump's Inaugural Address: Reading Comprehension Worksheet
PRINTABLE independent worksheet with reading comprehension questions. You will have a rigorous and engaging lesson aligned to standards on reading informational texts. Students will love analyzing Donald Trump's arguments and persuasive techniques. A great lesson on current events.In this activity, students will...1. Evaluate Donald Trump's persuasive techniques by reading the speech2. Annotate by answering reading comprehension questions3. Analyze and criticize Donald Trump's arguments Students
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â Donald Trump Rhetorical Analysis Reading Comprehension Printable Worksheets
The Gettysburg Address and Rhetoric
This assignment is designed to be used with both remote and/or in person learning. Though only one paragraph, Abraham Lincoln's The Gettysburg Address is one of America's most important speeches. This lesson is designed to provide students with important historical background for the speech using links to History.com, as well as with information provided on the slides. Resources included:A student copy of the full speech with room for annotating A teacher's annotated copy of the full speechClose
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in:Â Rhetoric in American Speeches: Henry, Paine, Lincoln, and Douglass
Ronald Reagan's "Challenger Tragedy Address" Rhetorical Analysis & Annotation
I have an entire series of presidential speeches that I pass out to my sophomores throughout the semester and this is the fourth one! As we go farther into the series, I ask more in depth questions, and I provide less and less support.My other Presidential Speeches:FDR's Pearl Harbor Address.JFK's inaugural address!JFK's "On James Meredith and the University of Mississippi"FDR's First Fireside ChatThis is the Fifth speech in my presidential series. It builds off of the skills that students work
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in:Â Presidential Speeches Rhetorical Annotations & Analysis Bundle!
JFK "On James Meredith" Annotation & Rhetorical Analysis Guide
When I begin my rhetoric unit the first thing I always do is present my SPACE COWBOY RHETORICAL APPEALS AND STRATEGIES lesson slideshow (one of my favorite slideshows in my entire store)!Then, the first speech that we do as a class is FDR's Pearl Harbor Address. This is a super easy speech to take apart, and it has several rhetorical strategies that are taught within the slideshow. The second presidential speech we do is JFK's inaugural address! This speech is packed full of figurative language
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in:Â Presidential Speeches Rhetorical Annotations & Analysis Bundle!
Donald Trump Rhetorical Analysis Reading Comprehension Printable Worksheets
This BUNDLE includes:â– Three reading comprehension worksheetsâ– Victory speech reading passageâ– Inaugural address reading passageâ– Immigration quotes reading passageâ– Multiple choice quiz for Immigration reading passageDon't have a lot of time? A lot of teachers don't these days! By purchasing these reading comprehension worksheets, you can get your precious time back! These highly engaging lesson teaches students to analyze and criticize Donald Trump by dissecting the words and ideas in his vict
Grades:
6th - 12th
Rhetorical Analysis Google Doc Packet & Printable - AOC "Women's Rights" Speech
PRINTABLE or DIGITAL Google Doc work packet. Ready to be assigned on Google Classroom. You will save time because an answer key and detailed lesson plan are included, and you will have a rigorous and engaging lesson aligned to standards on reading informational texts and argumentative writing! Students will love reading about social justice and gender inequality, perfect for Women's History Month!In this activity, students will...1. Evaluate AOC's persuasive techniques by reading the speech2. An
Grades:
6th - 12th
Herbert Hoover's "Rugged Individualism" Speech: Close Read, Comprehension, Essay
What's Included?My close reading activities take longer pieces of commonly taught curriculum texts and break them down into chunked sections with focused literacy tasks. After building their comprehension, students respond to an essay prompt to demonstrate their critical understanding of the text. Getting StartedThese guided literacy packets are designed for students to be able to complete alone, or they can be adapted for group and whole-class activities, which I outline in-depth within the pro
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Unit 5 - The North and the South
This bundle includes a full unit of content covering the French and English colonization efforts in the Americas. Sessions 5.1-5.4 include the following resources:The full text of each Session from the Nomadic Professor's online American History course (nomadicprofessor.com)Exclusive on-location mini-lectures from the Nomadic Professor (the thumbnails for each video in the PDF are hyperlinked to their unlisted YouTube URLs)Guided notes handouts that closely follow the textA complete answer key f
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Close Reading; Black History Month
This takes students through a step-by-step process of rhetorical analysis of the first chapter of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Students complete a close reading of the chapter and answering questions on the tone, purpose, word choice, and more. Then students use sentence frames to build a solid rhetorical analysis constructed response writing. You will love that EVERYTHING is ready to go! Students will will be exposed to one of the most poignant autobiographies ever written w
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Grades:
11th - 12th
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Also included in:Â American Literature Bundle; High School American Literature
"On the Education of Youth in America" by Noah Webster Text & Questions
This chunked version of Noah Webster's "On the Education of Youth in America" is the perfect assignment for any American Literature, Rationalism, Rhetoric, or Persuasive Writing unit! This assignment also works well if you are discussing education or the role of public schools. The text itself has been chunked into small paragraphs to help increase student understanding. Analysis questions are inserted throughout to check for students' comprehension of the text and reinforce understanding of uni
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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5.5 - Document lesson: Why do interpretations of past events change over time?
This file includes a full document-based lesson:6 primary and secondary sources grouped around a guiding questionA handout on historical literacy (sourcing, contextualizing, reading and inferring, and corroborating)A graphic organizer for focusing attention on key information, organizing ideas, and drawing attention to similarities and differences between the sourcesSupport for students working virtually and/or independently:Model answers in the student handoutVideo guidance modeling how to read
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Unit 5 - The North and the South
Custer's Last Stand
Includes: Article about Custer and Little Bighorn and graphic organizer activity.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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The Persians Before Cyrus The Great
A long chapter on Cyrus the Great before and the beginning on his reign of Persia. With advanced reading and questions.
Grades:
9th - 12th, Adult Education
Growth of Business and Labor Unions
Includes: article about industrial revolution and graphic organizer picking out the main idea and key details from all 3 sections of reading.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President
Includes: Article about Theodore Roosevelt and graphic organizer.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Doughboys Are Sent To France
Includes: article and graphic organizer activity.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
The United States Enters World War I
Includes: article and graphic organizer activity.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
President Woodrow Wilson
Includes: Article on Woodrow Wilson and graphic organizer activity.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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