Extension Menu – Persuasive LanguageAnalyse, annotate and create your own techniques bingo speech

Watch a debate, choose a winner and defend your choice

Research and explain a logical fallacy

Find examples of Logos, Pathos and Ethos in everyday life

Analyse the persuasive quality of a text that most would not consider persuasive

Study a court cast and locate the lawyers closing statements for analysis

Attempt to write a piece of writing without any opinion or argument

Create a unique way to teach persuasive techniques to another class

Research a court case and prepare your own statements to a jury for both sides of the case

Create a commercial for something taboo or untenable in our society

YOU CHOOSE Write a TV commercial to sell something unsellable

Analyse a political movements logic

Analyse a famous persons views on the world and how they try to convince you of it

Analyse a self-help gurus use of persuasive techniques to sell their message

Analyse a comedians presentation of their ideas on an issue

Compare the viewpoints of two politicians on one key issue

Analyse a core and unquestioned tenet of our society, convince us otherwise