This lesson analyzes the 1947 speech in which U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall outlined America’s plan to rebuild Europe after World War II. (USA 2021)

Thomas Paine's Common Sense was instrumental in shifting the argument from accommodation with Britain to outright independence for the American colonies (USA: EDSITEment 2021).

This resource supports high school educators who are looking for ways to use the visual rhetoric of political cartoons to highlight issues in current American politics, civics, and cultural life (USA 2016-20).

Students will learn what it takes to put together a good persuasive speech. The unit helps to strengthen writing skills but also to enhance verbal skills by learning the art of rhetoric (Yale National Initiative 2011).

In this lesson students learn that the recent anti-immigrant rhetoric follows a long tradition of nativist sentiment in America (The Lowdown, USA 2016)