Speeches: Persuasive Writing Mini Unit & Assignment
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This unit has students learn the style, structure, and techniques used in making a persuasive speech. It works for any type of speech, but focusses on Graduation/Commencement addresses as they tend to have more interesting examples, and inherently involve students reflecting on themselves / their school experiences / their growth over the last few years. This makes this assignment fabulous for student writing and reflection too!
Graduation speeches tend to swing eloquently between tones (funny and sarcastic to serious and thoughtful, and back again!), and use a variety of styles and structures to get across a meaningful thesis. Stop forcing students to write and get them talking about something interesting - themselves!
Designed for diverse learning environments - students can complete it in a teacher-led class or use included scaffolding for independent learning at home. Submissions are written, but can also be filmed for digital/distance submissions.
The Package Includes
- Style Devices handout*
- Tone handout*
- Methods of Structure informal writing development handout & analysis activity
- Analysis activities for three famous commencement addresses (Steve Jobs, J.K. Rowling, and Salman Rushdie)
- The Commencement Address Assignment with rubric
- Peer Editing instructions & editor question sheet
- Three Student Exemplars with editing/discussion questions (two of the exemplars also come with student explanation / teacher guides for analysis/discussion).
* These two items are also included in the TED Talk unit from The Lesson Shop store*
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