The Ripple Effect

Unit Topic:

Persuasive Speaking

Course: English 10

Essential Question(s)

What impact can one person make upon the world?

Enduring Understanding

One person can have a drastic effect by influencing others.

Speaking 2.5 Deliver Persuasive Speeches/ Writing 2.4 Write persuasive compositions, a. Structure ideas and arguments in a sustained
and logical fashion. b. Use specific rhetorical devices to support assertions (e.g., appeal to logic through reasoning; appeal to emotion or
ethical belief; relate a personal anecdote, case study, or analogy), precise and relevant evidence, including facts, expert opinions,
quotations, and expressions of commonly accepted beliefs and logical reasoning. d. Address readers concerns, counterclaims, biases,
and expectations.
1.10 Analyze historically significant speeches (e.g., Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream")
to find the rhetorical devices and features that make them memorable. 1.11 Assess how language and delivery affect the mood and tone
of the oral communication and make an impact on the audience. 1.12 Evaluate the clarity, quality, effectiveness, and general coherence
of a speaker's important points, arguments, evidence, organization of ideas, delivery, diction, and syntax.

Essential English Standard(s)

Important Related English Standards

Day 1

Objectives

Summary of
Student
Activities

Assessment

Day 2
SWBAT understand the SWBAT identify
impact of each
and use
individual in making the persuasive
world a better place.
strategies.

Day 3
SW know the
elements of
quality public
speaking.

Watch What Would You Pre-assessment of

Do?
persuasive
strategies
Discuss quote by using Review with a
a think-write-round
power point of
robin share
famous quotes for
& then discuss as a
each:
group
Introduce urgency
(kairos),
bandwagon,
analogy/metaphor,
deductive/inductive
reasoning
Exit ticket- What is one Strategies chart

Power point on
public speaking
Take notes

Trade notebooks

Day 4
SWBAT recognize persuasive
strategies and examples.
SWBAT recognize effective
public speaking skills. SWBAT
analyze why certain examples
are effective.
Analyze Obama acceptance
speech

Day 5
SW know what is
expected of them
on the culminating
assessment.

Say-mean-matter, individually

Rubric- Share the

Go over the
assignment sheet
and create rubric
for assessing
public speaking

little thing you can do

this week to start your
ripple?

(convince parents
to change curfew)

and fill in notes

missing, give
score out of 5

and then as a class

assignment
verbally in your
own words

Day 6

Day 7
SWBAT narrow
down their
ideas to one
specific
persuasive
claim.

Day 8
SWBAT recognize effective
evidence and choose
effective evidence for their
speeches.

Analyze a
famous
speech
using the
rubric

Pick one
ripple to talk
about (must get
approved
before moving
on)
Tree map to
plan speech
(work day)

TED Talk with tree map with

holes to fill in (we read their
tree maps while they watch)
Discuss supporting evidence
Give students time to finish
their own tree maps

Rubric,
Class
calibrating

Thesis approval
and tree map
(due the next
day with at least
3 main ideas)

TED Talk tree map fill in

the holes.
Students speech tree maps
due in 3 days

Objectives

SWBAT
evaluate a
persuasive
speech.

Summary of
Student
Activities

Assessment

Day 11

Day 9
SWBAT
practice
and
improve
upon their
public
speaking
skills.
Impromptu
extempora
neous
speeches

Day 10
SWBAT pick
an effective
visual aid.

Examples of
awesome
visual aids

Turn in completed tree

map (worth 100 points)
Mark their written speech
for emphasis and breaks.
Partners practice
speeches and give
feedback.

Mini rubric

Students
share their
ideas with a
group of 4 to
get feedback
on the visual
aid ideas.

Anecdotal teacher
observations and peer
feedback

SWBAT improve upon their

speeches through practice.

Final Project:
Students will give a persuasive speech convincing students to do one thing (specific- chosen by student) that will make a big impact on
the world around them. Students will be assessed by teacher and 2 peers (teacher 100 points, each peer 50 points) on a class created
rubric. Students will also get 100 points for completing a tree map of their persuasive speech.