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32 complete lessons | Two full courses | Teacher guides and student books | Grades 6 to 8 | Ages 11 to 14 | Two free preview lessons includedMost students aged 11 to 14 can stand up and speak. Very few can stand up, control how they sound and look, construct a three-point argument, make it persuasive, adapt it for their audience, build it into a complete multi-point case, defend that case under live challenge, frame it strategically before the first argument is delivered, and close it to show wh

16 complete lessons | Teacher guides and student books | Approximately 740 minutes of instruction | Grades 6 to 8 | Ages 11 to 14 Three strong arguments are not a case. A case is three arguments that all pull in the same direction, selected deliberately, sequenced for effect, connected by a single driving idea, defended under live challenge, opened to set the terms of the debate, and closed to show what survived. Case Building teaches all of that. Across 16 lessons and four units, students aged

Most students aged 11 to 14 can stand up and speak. Very few can stand up, control how they sound and look, construct a three-point argument, adapt it for their audience, deploy a rhetorical technique, and then defend it when someone pushes back. Speaking Foundations: Lower Secondary is the complete course that takes students from the first to the second. All 16 lessons. Four levels. One coherent arc. The course is built on a single principle: every skill taught is the foundation for the next on

14 complete lessons | Teacher guides and student process journals | Approximately 840 minutes of instruction | Grades 6 to 8 | Ages 11 to 14 | No drama experience requiredDevising is the most demanding thing a drama student does. It requires them to generate material from nothing, make creative decisions they can defend, collaborate without defaulting to the loudest voice, and produce a performed piece that did not exist before they made it. Most students at Grades 6 to 8 have never done any of

Sixteen lessons. Four levels. One complete course that takes students from standing up and saying their name to disagreeing with someone's idea kindly, clearly, and under pressure. Speaking Foundations (Primary Edition) is a full public speaking course for Grades 3 - 6 with no prior experience required. Every lesson assumes a beginner. Every skill is taught before it's expected. And every lesson is self-contained, so whether you're teaching the full sequence or picking the lessons your class nee

4 complete lessons | Teacher guides and student books | 45 to 50 minutes each | No prior debate experience requiredThree strong arguments are not a case. A case is three arguments that all pull in the same direction, selected deliberately, sequenced for effect, and connected by a single driving idea. That is the conceptual shift Unit 1 teaches. Students who arrive knowing how to construct a strong individual CEI argument leave Unit 1 able to build a complete case: one they can map, justify, and

Level 1 of Speaking Foundations: Lower Secondary takes students from managing speaking anxiety to completing their first unscripted two-minute talk under real time pressure. Four lessons. One complete arc. The level opens by addressing what most speaking courses ignore: the physiology of nerves. Students learn why anxiety and excitement feel the same, how to reframe the sensations they experience before speaking, and how to build a personal pre-speech routine that works for them specifically. Th

4 complete lessons | Teacher guides and student books | Approximately 190 minutes of instruction | Grades 6 to 8 | Ages 11 to 14Students leaving Unit 3 of Case Building can build a fully developed case and manage it through live challenges. They can triage, execute Answer and Return, and concede strategically without losing the thread. What they cannot yet do is set the terms of the debate before the first argument begins, close the case in a way that shows what survived, or manage their own cas

complete lessons | Teacher guides and student books | Approximately 185 minutes of instruction | Grades 6 to 8 | Ages 11 to 14A case that collapses under the first challenge was never really a case. It was a planned speech. Unit 3 is where students find that out, and where they build what they need to do better. Students leaving Unit 2 can build a fully developed case. The through line runs through every impact statement. The signposting is directional. The weighting is explicit. What the case

4 complete lessons | Teacher guides and student books | Approximately 185 minutes of instruction | Grades 6 to 8 | Ages 11 to 14Students leaving Unit 1 of Case Building can construct a case. They have a thesis, a through line, three selected and sequenced CEI points, and a deliberate order. What they cannot yet do is make those three points feel like a unified whole. The through line appears at the opening and disappears. The signposting tells the audience where they are but not where the argume

Ideas are worth defending. Standing Your Ground teaches students aged 11 to 14 how to do it with precision, without attacking the person they are disagreeing with, and without abandoning their position the moment it is challenged. Level 4 is the final level of Speaking Foundations: Lower Secondary. It is where the course becomes a debate. The level opens with a problem most speaking courses ignore. Students arrive knowing how to construct arguments. What they cannot yet do is hear one. Critical

Persuasion is not instinct. It is a set of techniques that can be named, practised, and deployed deliberately. Level 3 of Speaking Foundations: Lower Secondary gives students aged 11 to 14 the full toolkit: Aristotle's three appeals, systematic audience analysis, the rhetorical power of specific language, and a culminating four-minute persuasive speech that puts every tool to work. The level opens with ethos, pathos, and logos. Students meet the three appeals through advertising analysis, build

Level 2 of Speaking Foundations: Lower Secondary takes students from having a controlled speaking presence to having a controlled argument. Four lessons. One complete structural arc. The level opens by addressing the most fundamental confusion in student speaking: the difference between a topic and a thesis. Students who treat these as the same thing spend three minutes talking about something without arguing anything. Lesson 2.1 fixes that. The rapid-fire topic-versus-thesis drill makes the dis

Speaking is only half of communication. Level 4 of Speaking Foundations (Primary Edition) is the most transferable unit in the entire course. Students who can already speak with structure and persuasion now learn to listen properly, summarise fairly, ask questions that take a conversation forward, and disagree with an idea without making it personal. These are not just speaking skills. They are life skills. What's IncludedAll four complete lessons with teacher's guides, facilitation notes, and t

Children persuade the people around them every day, and often don't know they're doing it. This level names what they already know, gives them the tools to do it honestly, and builds to a complete three-minute persuasive talk. Level 3 of Speaking Foundations (Primary Edition) is a complete four-lesson unit on persuasion. Students move from understanding what persuasion actually is, through the techniques that make arguments stick, to a fully assessed talk on something they genuinely believe. Wha

Your students have learned to stand up and speak. Now let's give them the tools to structure something worth saying well. Building Ideas is the complete Level 2 bundle from Speaking Foundations (Primary Edition). Here are four carefully sequenced lessons that take students from rambling to structured, reasoned, and confident. They'll learn to organise their ideas, back them up, open with impact, and close with intention. What's Included Lesson 2.1: Beginning, Middle, End: The three-part structu

Most students approach a Shakespeare scene the wrong way. They stop at every unfamiliar word, lose the thread, and decide the play is too difficult. This lesson teaches a different approach. The five-step reading process at the heart of this lesson gives students a reusable analytical framework for approaching any Shakespeare scene independently. Read for story first without stopping. Track the power dynamics moment by moment. Tolerate unfamiliar words and build meaning from context. Listen to t

Teacher guide and student book | 45-minute lesson plus 15-minute independent activity | Grades 5 to 8 | Ages 10 to 14 | No drama background requiredThe notes session closes the loop between rehearsal and performance. It also teaches one of the most valuable skills in the programme: how to give and receive specific, actionable feedback professionally. Students who learn this skill will carry it into every creative and collaborative context they encounter, long after the production has finished. A

Teacher guide and student book | 45-minute lesson plus 15-minute independent activity | Grades 5 to 8 | Ages 10 to 14 | No drama background requiredStage presence is often described as an innate quality that some performers have and others do not. This is not true, and the lesson says so directly. Stage presence is the visible result of committed attention, genuine engagement with the world of the play, and the confidence to simply be present without doing anything to earn attention. Every stude

Teacher guide and student book | 45-minute lesson plus 15-minute independent activity | Grades 5 to 8 | Ages 10 to 14 | No drama background requiredSight lines are the most practically correctable problem in student productions, and the most commonly ignored until performance day when it is too late to fix. This lesson solves sight line problems before performance day by teaching students to audit their own staging from the audience's perspective. The warm-up makes sight line problems visible th