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Teachers Network: A Trip to Baseball Hall of Fame (Writing a Persuasive Letter)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan focuses on improving students' persuasive writing skills. Students reseach baseball and then write a persuasive essay to convince the baseball coach that a trip the Baseball Hall in Fame would be beneficial to the...
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Better Lesson: W.3.1a: Introduce the Topic or Text They Are Writing About

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 12 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1a: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
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Better Lesson: Friendly Controversy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
How do I convince others to understand my side of the story? Second grade students conducted shared research activities and participated in a Socratic Seminar practicing the techniques of persuasive reasoning.
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog by...
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Read Write Think: Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? World War Ii Posters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will analyze World War II posters. Students will first look at the posters as a whole group and will work independently. Students will to determing how the following terms differ: argument, persuasion and...
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Read Write Think: Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.
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Read Write Think: Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This multi-session lesson features the opportunity to analyze a variety of famous speeches. Students will look carefully at tone, rhetoric, propaganda techniques, and historical context as they write an analysis paper....
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Rhetoric

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students engage with texts that have persuasive power and examine how argument is created. The variety of texts allows students to evaluate the impact of occasion and audience upon the use of rhetorical appeals in a variety of media....

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