On-line resource and learning support with optional activities to support a unit to teach rhetorical and literary terms applicable to Julius Caesar to be followed by All the King's Men; with analysis of speeches by Huey Long, JFK and FDR. 

Students will discuss diction, syntax, ethos/logos/pathos, organization  and use of figurative language. Students will write a speech in which they call for a change in some aspect of existing political policy.

This lesson was created by Ms. Gonder, Ms. LeBendig, Ms. Travis and Mr. Carroll at Foshay Learning Center through the Institute for Standards Curricula, and Assessment  (Lesson Study Design Group).