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Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals.

More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Traditionally, teachers have encouraged students to engage with and interpret literature—novels, poems, short stories, and plays. Back to top Nearly everything we read and hear is an argument. "Since rhetoric is the art of effective communication, its principles can be applied to many facets of everyday life" (Lamb 109). Further Reading. Idea_Paper_42. Plato. The Feudal System: Castles At War. Horsepower: Harnessed For War. Salem Witch Trials. Trains, Telegraphs, And Steamships: War's New Weapons.

World War II. The Holocaust's Legacy. Holocaust Stories One of the most well known stories of life during the Holocaust is the one we piece together from Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl and its related materials. Ask your students to use the Internet, films, and print resources to research another person who either survived the Holocaust or, like Anne Frank, died during it; as an alternative, they may want to interview someone they know personally who lived through the Holocaust. When their research is complete, have each student prepare a presentation about the person they researched. (You may want to ask students to create a multimedia presentation using HyperStudio or Power Point.) When the students have shared their presentations with the class, lead a discussion about the stories they have heard. What common elements did they hear? What lessons can be learned from the lives of those who survived and those who perished?

What kinds of images and words does propaganda often make use of? The Normandy Invasion. World War II: The Pacific. Objectives Students will research in depth the key events of World War II in the Pacific; and debate whether dropping the nuclear bomb was the best way to end the war. Materials Paper and pencils Computer with Internet access Print resources about World War II in the Pacific (helpful, but not required) Procedures Find out what students know about World War II in the Pacific. Ask if they have any relatives who fought in the Pacific. Back to Top Evaluation Use the following three-point rubric to evaluate students' work during this lesson.

Vocabulary Bataan Death MarchDefinition: After a major battle between the Allies and the Japanese that took place in the Philippines in May 1942, the Allies surrendered and were made to march five to ten days, or about 100 kilometers.Context: The Bataan Death March and the imprisonment of the soldiers at Camp O'Donnell resulted in 3,000 American deaths. Standards Credits Marilyn Fenichel, education writer and editor.

Opposing Views On The Vietnam War. The Korean War. This lesson plan may be used to address the academic standards listed below. These standards are drawn from Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education: 2nd Edition and have been provided courtesy of theMid-continent Research for Education and Learningin Aurora, Colorado. Grade level: 9-12Subject area: U.S. historyStandard: Understands how the Cold War and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam influenced domestic and international politics.Benchmarks: Understands U.S. foreign policy from the Truman administration to the Johnson administration (e.g., American policies toward independence movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East; U.S. policy regarding the British mandate over Palestine and the establishment of the state of Israel; Kennedy's response to the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile crises; how the Korean War affected the premises of U.S. foreign policy; the Kennedy-Johnson response to anticolonial movements in Africa).

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