Students will study Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, analyzing its rhetorical influences and oratorical techniques while exploring how speeches both resemble and differ from other ...

This engaging, student-friendly introductory lesson provides the perfect foundation for a unit on persuasion, rhetoric or non-fiction writing. Designed to introduce students to the purpose, power and ...

This lesson gives students a clear framework for understanding Lady Macbeth’s persuasive power and how Shakespeare uses rhetoric to expose Macbeth’s insecurity. The worksheet and adaptive worksheet ...