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ALEX Lesson Plans
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
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Description: In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students read and analyze essays by Frederick Douglass and Mark Twain. They explore the various methods for writing essays and their basis in rhetorical tradition. They also learn effective strategies for writing essays and argumentative prose. They study the persuasive appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos, and then apply these rhetorical strategies to essay writing projects of their own.
Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment
Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
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