Persuasive Writing: When students construct persuasive arguments they can learn how to Analyze Persuasive Texts.
Persuasive Statements
Native American Views of Nature
Persuasive Speeches
Remarks by President Barack Obama in Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney
President Barack Obama's Second Inaugural Address
Ain't I a Woman? Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglass Speech on Women's Suffrage
John F. Kennedy's Remarks in the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
President Barack Obama's Speech to Students
Governor Deval Patrick's Inaugural Speech
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
Mayor Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech
Helen Keller Speech about the Blind
Persuasive Poems and Songs
Analyze then Create a Persuasive Song
Interpret African American Spirituals
Consider what difference ! makes.
How much stronger is will than shall?
How does this song relate to "Yes we can!"
Link to Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
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