This document contains performance-based assessment and instructional activities for Missouri high school teachers to use in teaching the communications arts needed by marketing education students. The activities included were developed to reflect Missouri's new Show-Me Standards, which are knowledge (content) and performance (process) standards designed to provide students with a solid foundation of knowledge in the basic academic skills areas. Each activity includes some or all of the following: marketing education competencies addressed; Show-Me Standard(s) addressed; objective; steps entailed in performing the suggested activity; instructional option(s); reference(s); approximate time; assessment activity and suggested scoring guide; and student information handout(s). Of the 17 learning activities included, 11 pertain to communications in marketing (facilitating communication among employees, management, and customers; interpreting marketing information; training employees; using oral communications in marketing; and using written communications in marketing), 1 deals with identifying a marketing occupational objective, and 5 deal with selling (conducting sales presentations, identifying various types of selling, and utilizing specialized selling techniques). (MN)