Created for a 90-minute lessonn plan (could extend into the next lesson block). Students will learn about different abolitionist groups and individuals advocating for abolition prior to the Civil War, as well as analyze four differet abolitionist speeches. After, student will use what they have learned to create their own abolitionist speech. Includes lesson plan, slides, Student Speech Analysis Handout, student instructions, and sample abolition speech.

Lecture notes on changing speech and culture relations in Southwest Virginia. Historical overview of Southern Appalachian Speech practices with a Virginia emphasis.

In this lesson, the art of blackout poetry is used to demonstrate how word choice estabishes an author's tone. Blackout poetry is a creative way for students to take a selected work and change the tone by selecting and pulling specific words from the text. Students see how choosing words and manipulating text impacts the tone and can change the meaning of a text.