Resources for Educators

See Our New Section on Ap Lang!

Click here for cheat-sheet style explanations, quizzes, videos, and more.

Read the Teacher's Guides

Written by the co-creator of Argue Lab and published by Random House, this guide to teaching Thank You for Arguing is  packed with teaching tips, exercises, quiz questions, and more. And don’t miss the new teacher’s guide to How to Argue with a Cat.

Download TYFA Teacher’s guide here.

Download How to Argue with a Cat Teacher’s Guide here.

Get a free review copy

Haven't read the new edition of Thank You for Arguing yet, and you teach at a high school or college? Request a free copy! And you can also request a review copy of How to Argue with a Cat. By the way: You can get a bulk educator's discount for Thank You for Arguing from Random House.  

Have Jay video-chat your class

Jay offers free video chats for classes or clubs that use either book. He can give a quick ten-minute talk about living the writer's life, about how the argument skills have changed him...or any other topic you choose. Then we get to interaction, with questions asked live or submitted in advance. Click here to learn how.

Match ArgueLab videos to chapters in Thank You for Arguing

You’ll find the guide here. Jay’s always working to add more videos, teasing out some of the concepts in individual chapters. (Keep in mind that the chapter numbers change with each of the four editions, so look for the chapter titles, not the numbers!)

Subscribe to the Arguelab YouTube channel

Jay and his collaborator, Christina Fox, are releasing weekly videos geared toward your students. And they often answer questions students ask in the comments or in ArgueLab! You'll find the YouTube channel here.

Use the book to flip your classroom

David Landes of the American University in Beirut tells how here. 

Assign field reports

Learn more here.

Print Posters

Wendy Everard, a teacher at Cazenovia Central Schools in Upstate New York, created this Google Doc showing the essential elements of rhetorical principles in Thank You for Arguing. She gave me permission to put this up for fellow educators. Download the doc here.