Rhetoric for Kids
Lessons on Rhetoric (these include activities):
- A Good Preface: Start Young
- What is Rhetoric?
- Three Kinds of Proof | Activity: Pretend You’re a Marketer
- The 5 Canons of Rhetoric
- Euphemisms and Dysphemisms
- 9 Examples of Rhetorical Slanters
- Sneaky, Sneaky What Did You Just Say to Me? #1 | #2
- Don’t Fall for that Fallacy: #1 | #2 | #3
- Summary of the Top 10 Fallacies (Parker & Moore’s top 10)
- Deductive vs Inductive Reasoning
- Let’s Get Logical: Logic Dogs (for small breeds) | Logic Dogs (for medium breeds) & Logic Dogs Game | Argument Maps
- The Rhetorical Situation
- Communicating Logos, Ethos, and Pathos: The Communication Model | Two Quick Tips for Finding Your Natural Voice
- The Rhetoric of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Visual Rhetoric | For further information on design, see Elements of Design and Principles of Design
- How to Fact Check
- Activity: April Fool’s News (a humorous way to learn about argument from outrage, loaded questions, emotive force of words, etc)