Vanessa Rodriguez- Summer 2016 Course- Democracy Now!
Unit Title: Persuasive Writing
Unit Essential Questions:
-What are the types of
author’s purpose?
- How does the media
relate to persuasion?
- What are some
persuasive keywords in a speech?
- What elements make up a
persuasive essay?
- What language can be
influential in persuasive writing?
- What are some ways we
are persuaded in our every day lives?
-How do we write a
persuasive argument?
Grade Level: 4th
Subject/Topic Area: Writing/Author’s Purpose & Persuasive Essay
Time Frame: 2 weeks (to lead up to writing a persuasive essay) one
period per day
Objective: Students will be able to identify author’s purpose
throughout various types of media.
Common Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1.A, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1.B, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.7
Media Included:
2)
What Can You Do?
8) Jimmy Kimmel clip on youtube
9) Donald Trump’s cartoon-from pinterest
10)
Newspaper
covers/headlines
11)
Google
images
MiniLesson:
1. Using a powerpoint
presentation to teach the types of author’s purpose. Show how it is broken up
into 3 parts: Persuade, Inform, Entertain, and Share Feelings 2. Then students will have discussions regarding
images and identify the author’s purpose in each image or video clip.
3. Art
activity: Create a wheel or a pie, when they hear or see a text/image
they lift up their pie and then explain with their partners why they picked
that author’s purpose.
4. Model:
Teacher will demonstrate the graphic organizer: TAPS that students will use in
their research. Then, she will show a
clip from Fox News about the fast food workers wanting $15 an hour. Then the teacher will demonstrate how to fill
out the TAPS graphic organizer (Topic, Audience, Purpose, Supporting Reasons).
5. Turn & Talk
(after the clip)- Is
it possible for an author to have more than one purpose? Explain where you’ve
seen this?
6. After teacher models analyzing the video using TAPS, she
explain how the class will be given topics to research that are important to
our society. The topics are: Climate
Change/Global Warming, Animal Rights and Pipeline affecting Native American
land. Students will be responsible to
choose and then be grouped according to topic to brainstorm and share ideas. (Optional: Students can go home that week and
search for Current events to add to the list of topics). For example, some topics can range from the
election, deportation, police brutality, etc).
7) Independent
Activity: After 1 week of researching and filling out the TAPS using
various sources, students will pick a side to develop a persuasive essay. They must decide if they are “for or against”
the topic they chose. They will use the
PIEED graphic organizer to develop their essay.
Formal Assessment: Write a persuasive essay using PIEED and other strategies
answering teacher developed question: Do you think Animal shelters help or harm
animals? Or students in the same groups can develop their own question based on
their research topic.
Follow-ups: Use the graphic organizer FRAME or POWER to breakdown
different media sources and political cartoons.
Focus on persuasive vocabulary (ex: bias, pro, con, mood, claim,
opposing viewpoint, counter-arguments, propaganda)
Other possible topic: Do
you agree fast food workers should get $15 an hour? (show Democracy now &
fox news videos)
Extended Activities:
·
Jeopardy
game with different examples of author’s choice
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Art
related project as a group after essay is complete: write a poem, make a
poster, write and sing song about whether you’re “for or against” the issue you
researched)
·
The
whole class work on the same topic but the class is broken in half to be “PROS
and CONS”. The essay will still be developed, but a debate will take place
after.
·
Teach
PIES with headlines and cover pages
To Prepare ahead: Print out a list of topics from the Democracy Now website
for students to choose from.
Analyzing
Persuasive Writing
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Source:
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Topic
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Audience
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Purpose
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Supporting Reasons
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“You got PIEED” graphic organizer
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P(persuade/point
of view)
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I(inform)
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E(examples)
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E
(entertain)
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D(describe/Share
Feelings)
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