Lesson Plans:

•Unit Overview & Lesson Outline
•Analyzing Speeches Lessons
•Comparison of tone & POV
•Power of threes response (parallel structure)

Graphic Organizers:

•Research T-chart
•Analyzing Speeches T-chart
•Alternative Graphic Organizer website
HyperStudio Planning Sheet

Assessments:

Formative - Teachers may select one or more of these assessments to evaluate students' daily work.
•Exit Slips
•Progress Sheet
•Starters for Learning Log
•Research Reflection Check Points
•Lead Essay Checklist
•Persuasive Writing Checklist

Outcomes & Indicators:

•8th Grade English Language Arts Content Standards
•Library Media Outcomes

Themes & Questions:

•Enduring Understandings & Questions
•Writing Research Questions

Resources & Links:

Online Research Modules
•Cecil County Research Modules
•Jamie McKenzie Research Modules
•Baltimore County Research Modules

Using Hyperstudio
•Hyperstudio Tutorial 1
•Hyperstudio Tutorial 2

Speeches
•Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address"
•Martin Luther King's, "I Have a Dream"