English 11 · Week 19 · Justice, Identity, and Contemporary Voices
Civil Rights Rhetoric
Letter from Birmingham Jail and nonviolent persuasion.
- Students will
- Students analyze how King uses rhetoric and nonviolent persuasion to advance a purpose.
- SEL skill
- Explain how persuading with respect can reach an opposing audience
- What it looks like
- Students consider how to persuade with respect when emotions run high.
- Content focus
- Civil rights rhetoric
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding other people's perspectives and feeling with them, including people from different backgrounds. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- RI.11-12.6: Reading: Informational Text, Grades 11 to 12, Standard 6
- CA ELD standards: ELD.PI.11-12.7 Evaluating language choices
- CA ELA/ELD Framework theme: Meaning Making
- Works with: Any nonfiction
Fits these textbook chapters
- StudySync Grade 11, Unit 3: Modern Times
- myPerspectives English Language Arts Grade 11, Unit 3: Power, Protest, and Change
- HMH Collections Grade 11, Collection 4: A New Birth of Freedom
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More social awareness activities for English 11
- Foundations of American Voice Social awarenessFounding documents and who they included and excluded.
- Voices of Resistance Social awarenessFrederick Douglass and other voices of resistance.
- Gatsby and Belonging Social awarenessCharacters reinventing themselves to belong.
- Immigration Narratives Social awarenessImmigrant experiences in American literature.
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