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Persuasive Writing Persuasive Writing Unit - Can you convince someone?

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**Colorado Content Standards:** - Students will read and understand a variety of materials. - Students read to locate, select and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological resources. - Organize information into a coherent essay or report with a thesis statement in the introduc tion, transition sentences to link paragraph.

Rubric that will be used to assess students' progress

**Unit Introduction and Overview:** Students will read a variety of persuasive texts as models for the strategies and organizational techniques that authors use to convince their audience of their point of view or to take a specific action. Students will then apply these strategies and techniques to their own persuasive writing pieces throughout the unit.

Unit Guiding Questions: - After critically reading a variety of persuasive materials, what conclusions can we make about the effect of persuasion on our lives? - How can we persuade others using a variety of techniques? - How can we relate what we've learned about persuasion to the political and economic issues of today? - How can we effectively communicate our ideas to other? - Why does a writer consider audience when developing informational text?


 * Click on the assignments to access our activities for each persuasive piece:**

Final writing assessment __in class__ ON Tuesday December 3rd
 * Lesson 1 Must be completed by 11/09/09**
 * Lesson 2 Must be completed by 11/19/09**
 * Lesson 3 Must be completed by 11/24/09**
 * Lesson 4 Must be completed by 11/30/09**
 * Lesson 5 Must be completed by 12/01/09**

Topic Sentence Practice Number 1 to be completed as a template in your student portfolio by 11/19 Topic Sentence Practice Number 2 - to be completed as a template in your student portfolio by 11/20 Topic Sentence Practice Number 3- to be completed as a template in your student portfolio by 11/20