Election 2016 — Language Arts Resources

Election 2016 English Language Arts Resources

The 2016 presidential election year is the perfect opportunity to help your students learn about the power of language and become more critical readers and listeners. Click here to see our tips for getting teaching during the election year.

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Language of Politicians Posters
Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction: Slant, Spin...
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetoric, Logic, and Argumentation

Techniques of Propaganda and Persuasion
Essential American Documents - Vol. 1 & 2
Introduction to Satire

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Resources for teaching language and elections:

Language of Politicians Posters

Politicians rarely spout outright lies. They're usually more subtle with their manipulations of language. This eight-poster set highlights some of the most common logical fallacies, half-truths and distortions, including: statistics out of context, slippery slope fallacy, straw man, and false analogy.

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Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction: Slant, Spin, and Bias

Everything you read was written with a viewpoint in mind—including nonfiction. Help your students understand the bias that's inherent in news and other sources with Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction: Slant Spin and Bias.

Rhetorical Devices

The election season highlights some of the most important speeches in the country. Teach your students to identify the rhetorical devices that speechwriters use to craft the messages that the world hears.

Rhetoric, Logic, and Argumentation

The core elements of rhetoric were outlined by Cicero over 2000 years ago and are still being used in speeches and persuasive writing today. Rhetoric, Logic, and Argumentation brings the core lessons of classical rhetoric to today's students, teaching them how to build compelling arguments and avoid logical fallacies.

Techniques of Propaganda and Persuasion

Propaganda isn't just pithy phrases and stark images. It's any sort of deliberately manipulative messaging designed to change your views without appealing to logic. Help your students learn to identify the techniques of propaganda to become more informed readers.

Essential American Documents - Vol. 1 & 2

Presidential addresses, influential speeches, persuasive essays, supreme court decisions—this two-part anthology of great American nonfiction texts includes texts by Roosevelt, Reagan, Kennedy, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, George Washington, Chief Tecumseh, and dozens of other preeminent Americans.

Introduction to Satire

From Saturday Night Live to the Sunday newspaper, satire is everywhere during election season. Using classical satires like A Modest Proposal as well as recent cartoons, Introduction to Satire is a giant PowerPoint presentation you can use to teach your students about this humorous, and sometimes bitter, genre.

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