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This lesson bundle was thematically designed to engage students with rigorous and relevant texts to analyze, compare, and contrast — awesome for the Thanksgiving season! This bundle focuses on three texts — the Mayflower Compact, Chief Powhatan’s Speech to John Smith, and Disney’s Pocahontas’s “Colors of the Wind.” Perfect to deliver in a three day series leading up to Thanksgiving, as a thematic assignment to tackle over Thanksgiving break, or as a compelling text-set for any time of year.
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Lesson Description
Wondering what you can expect in this lesson bundle?
- A guided analysis of the Mayflower Compact’s rhetorical situation
- Opportunities for students to analyze the Mayflower Compact with varying degrees of scaffolding
- A line-by-line scaffolded analysis of the Mayflower Compact (spanning three pages)
- A line-by-line scaffolded analysis of Chief Powhatan’s Speech to John Smith (spanning three pages)
- A line-by-line scaffolded analysis of Disney’s Pocahontas’s “Colors of the Wind” (spanning four pages)
- A compare-and-contrast based learning task that prompts students to analyze multiple texts for rhetorical devices, effectiveness, and purpose
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Lesson Features
| Grades | 8 - 12 |
| Focus | Rhetorical Analysis, Close Reading, Rhetorical Devices, Speaker's Purpose |
