Students will create "silent scenes" of Shakespeare's Julis Caesar rejecting and then accepting the crown, in order to better understand the story and its significance.

Creating Facebook-like presentations via Microsoft PowerPoint will engage and motivate students to learn about famous people of the American Revolution. To gain background knowledge prior to their study of the Revolutionary War, students will research people who played an important role during this time period. While sharing their research in their PowerPoint presentations, students provide written feedback.

In this lesson students will listen to examples of several dialects and discuss what they hear about each speaker from the recordings. As a class, students will also define dialect and use Alice Walker's novel the Color Purple to continue their analysis.

In this lesson, students respond to a diagnostic assessment to determine what they need to know in order to become good speakers.

In this lesson, students analyze famous speeches and create a speech of their own that represents the feelings, perceptions, and beliefs of others.