Essay | Speech

• Art and Culture

Medium > Visual Arts
Subject Matter > Art History

• History and Social Studies

Place > The Americas
Place > Asia
Place > Europe
U.S. History
U.S. > Civil War
U.S. > The Great Depression and WWII
Themes > Exploration and Discovery
Themes > Civil Rights
Themes > Culture
Themes > War and Foreign Policy
World > The Modern World

• Literature and Language Arts

Genre > Essay
Place > Modern World

• Analysis
• Compare and contrast
• Critical thinking
• Cultural analysis
• Discussion
• Expository writing
• Gathering, classifying and interpreting written and visual information
• Historical analysis
• Internet skills
• Interpretation
• Investigating/journalistic writing
• Media analysis
• Making inferences and drawing conclusions
• Online research
• Report writing
• Representing ideas and information in writing
• Research
• Summarizing
• Synthesis
• Technology
• Using archival documents
• Using primary sources
• Using secondary sources
• Visual analysis
• Visual art analysis
• Writing skills

• ELA Reading: 7
• ELA Writing: 1, 4-10
• ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2, 4-6
• HSS Reading: 1-3, 6-10
• HSS Writing: 2, 4-10

• Allow additional time for peer-review, editing, and revision of work, or for students to evaluate the use of perspective, structure, style and tone in their finished pieces.
• Add a visual requirement, such as the use of images (for essays) or digital media (for speeches).
• Increase the minimum length requirement for the essays or speeches, asking students to incorporate additional research on the aesthetic and historical contexts of their photographs.
• Publish class excerpts in the school newspaper or literary/art journal, or encourage students to submit their final pieces independently.