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Grade 9-12
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Rhetoric

Time: 75 mins,
Updated: April 28 2020,
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Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Understand identical facts about the economy can have multiple meanings when rhetoric is used to influence the listener or reader.
  • Assess the substance of differing public policy proposals, independent of the rhetoric used to advocate them.

Standards

National Standards in Economics

State Standards

Common Core State Standards

Concepts

Budget Deficit, Credit
Subjects:
Social Studies,Economics

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