Persuasion Power Slides

A detailed student evidence log for the final podcast project, providing sections for analyzing intent, vocal forensics, and bias check.

A guide for the final project where students select a podcast episode, analyze its intent and bias, and present their findings, including a checklist and a performance rubric.

Slides for the final project launch, introducing the media critic mission, criteria for analyzing podcasts, and methods for citing audio evidence.

Answer key for the Lesson 4 worksheet on grammatical reductions.

Teacher guide for "The Source Weaver" lesson. It outlines the synthesis process, provides a hook activity, transition words for ESL support, and a sample synthesized paragraph.

Answer key for the Lesson 3 worksheet on assimilation.

Answer key for the Lesson 2 worksheet on elision.

Answer key for the Lesson 1 worksheet on linking and intrusion.

Capstone student project for "The Source Weaver" lesson. Students analyze two short texts about Mars, take notes, and synthesize the information into a single coherent paragraph using their own vocabulary and sentence structures.

A comprehensive teacher guide for the Speech Lab sequence, including audio scripts, instructional cues, pacing, and differentiation strategies.

Visual slides for "The Source Weaver" lesson. These slides introduce students to the concept of synthesis as connecting ideas from multiple sources to create a new, coherent whole.

Teacher guide for "Quote Quest" lesson. It outlines the decision-making criteria for quoting vs. paraphrasing, provides instructional steps, and includes an answer key for the sorting activity.

A student mastery guide for practicing shadowing techniques with transcript analysis of complex campus dialogues.

Student activity for "Quote Quest" lesson. It presents several textual scenarios and requires students to decide whether to use a direct quote or a paraphrase, providing a justification for their choice.

A slide deck for Lesson 5 on shadowing techniques, prosody, and the final mastery assessment of connected speech patterns.

Visual slides for "Quote Quest" lesson. These slides help students distinguish between when to use direct quotes for impact and when to paraphrase for factual clarity.