ENG2D Unit 3: Speak Up

What makes words powerful enough to change minds? Students analyse famous public-domain speeches, compare the two versions of Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech, hunt for fallacies in a fictional comment thread and pitch ideas to student “sharks.”

Assessment of learning: a persuasive essay (Writing) and a three-minute persuasive talk (Oral), with rubrics.

Lessons

1. Convince Me
2. Rhetoric Bingo
3. Whose Fourth of July?
4. Two Truths
5. Fallacy Detective
6. Build the Case
7. Shark Tank
8. The Persuasive Essay (2 classes)
9. Delivery Lab
10. Talk Prep
11. Talk Days (2 classes)

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 19 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and both summative tasks with rubrics

Built for the Ontario curriculum (English, Grades 9 and 10, 2007, revised), and easy to adapt for any Grade 10 English class.

Need just one lesson? Single lessons from this unit will also be available for CA$3.99 each.