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Lesson 5: Sharing the Power, Sharing the Platform

Students will explore well known celebrities, politicians and influencers and how they use their platform to make their audiences feel more confident and more powerful to think about how they can use these techniques in their own persuasion.

Skills
Analyzing Power
Persuasive Writing
Topics
Democr. Foundations
Learning Tools
Presentation Slides
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.10

Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.8.3

Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.5

With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 8 here.)

College, Career, and Civic Life Framework (C3)

D4.7.6-8.

Assess their individual and collective capacities to take action to address local, regional, and global problems, taking into account a range of possible levers of power, strategies, and potential outcomes.


 

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