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Collect students’ Persuasion Maps and use them and your discussions during conferences to see how well students understand how to use the persuasive strategies and are able to plan their essays. You want to look also at how well they are able to make changes from the map to their finished essays.
- Mock Trials
- Rhetorical Bar Graphs
- Analyzing Commercials & Advertisements
- Argument Olympics
- Silent Discussions
- Studying Famous Speeches
- Nailed It! & Shark Tank
- Real World Topics + Choice
- The Elevator Pitch
- Musical Debates
Want to teach students how important it is to support your argument with evidence (and what happens when you don’t)? Ready to watch your class eagerly annotate a text and cite said evidence *without* complaints? I wasn’t sure my students would ever see citing evidence as more than a chore until I dressed up as “Judge G,” borrowed a gavel, and facil...
Bar graphs in ELA? Oh yes you can! Getting a gold star from her math cohorts, Ashley Bible at Building Book Lovehas her students create rhetorical bar graphs to analyze persuasion. This digital or tactile strategy is simple yet highly effective! All you do is assign each appeal a color before taking students on a color-coded text hunt. (In herrheto...
To help students identify persuasive appeals and techniques in action, Shana Ramin from Hello, Teacher Ladysuggests deconstructing commercials and advertisements. When teaching in person, Shana enjoys facilitating this type of analysis with the tried-and-true “chalk talk”approach. After gathering a series of printed advertisements, Shana glues each...
The Argument Olympics are Emily Aierstok’s favorite way to teach middle and high school students evidence based writing. Emily, from Read it. Write it. Learn it., uses an Olympic theme to deconstruct arguments, write outlines, and compete in the “strongest evidence” game complete with gold medals! Kids LOVE it and quickly understand the qualities o...
Jenna, @DrJennaCopper, loves using silent discussions for students to debate the impact of articles and artifacts. The rules are simple: students are only allowed to write. This type of stipulation helps students really think about their responses since they can’t talk. Here’s how it works: 1. Choose an artifact or article. 2. Get a big piece of po...
Lauralee from the Language Arts Classroom frequently uses famous speeches and commercialsto teach persuasion. By bringing in authentic examples to the classroom, this strategy offers history and media lessons, too. When students realize that they see strategies every day in social media, on their phones, and within stores, they engage and are excit...
Staci Lamb from The Engaging Station loves switching up her creative lessons on ethos, logos, and pathos every year. She has had students watch Shark Tank and sell their own products, but last year, she was inspired to try something new by making a connection to the Netflix show Nailed It. Right before winter break, she went to Walmart to buy graha...
Today, students have access to more information than ever at their fingertips. Tanesha from Tanesha B. Forman leverages real world topics – that students want to debate in the classroom – with argumentative writing lessons. Choice is the bedrock of Tanesha’s approach to literacy and she offers students a choice on a topic (e.g. should college athle...
No matter what you’re reading or learning about, adding a persuasive pitch to “sell” an idea, is a great way to include elements of persuasion beyond a persuasive unit. For example, if students are creating something to aid a character, rather than just explain it, challenge your students to create a short elevator pitch! It can even be used with l...
Middle and high school students can at times feel intimidated by debate and persuasion. That’s why Melissa from Reading and Writing Havenrecommends a mini debate activity that engages all students and makes debate relaxed and approachable. Musical debates amplify the energy, creativity, and social interaction in the physical classroom and online. B...
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Teach your students the power of persuasion by preparing them to write persuasive letters. This lesson, complete with brainstorming activities, allows young writers to unlock their inner rhetoricians.
Plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for conveying the intended meaning to an audience, determining appropriate topics through a range of strategies (e.g., discussion, background reading, personal interests, interviews), and developing a thesis or controlling idea.
Mar 26, 2021 · Persuasive Writing Lesson Plan 1: Identify the Key Features of Adverts. Persuasive Writing Lesson Plan 2: Analyze an Advert. Persuasive Writing Lesson Plan 3: Plan an Advertisement. Persuasive Writing Lesson Plan 4: Create the Advertisement. Persuasive Writing Lesson Plan 5: Further Practice in the Art of Persuasion.
Persuasion Lesson Plans: This lesson shows students the power of language. As the class reads a speech by Jonathan Edwards, they examine the language he used to persuade. They are asked to find examples of structure and literary devices from his speech and are to decide if they are effective.
May 30, 2001 · Goals: The goal of this lesson is to improve students’ speaking skills by understanding persuasion proficiencies. Objectives: Students will be able to:
