PERSUASION


 * Established Goals: **

Nature of Reading, Writing, and Communicating:

1. Readers use text features as a source for finding information. 2. Readers can develop skills to understand persuasive techniques and to distinguish fact from opinion.

3. Determine author’s purpose based on organizational structures, text features, and content

**Essential QUESTIONS:**

1. How does understanding the author’s purpose help readers comprehend the text?

How do text structures affect our understanding of various texts? 2. How do authors use text features to highlight information? 3. How are conclusions different from evaluations? 4. How can an author’s perspective inform readers or persuade the readers to change their thinking?


 * What is persuasion?
 * How can I identify two points of view?
 * How do I create a strong opinion statement?
 * How can the EBSCO database help me identify the best and most current resources for my argument?

** Students will KNOW: **

When readers become aware of how an author writes, they can increase their own sentence fluency when they are writing. (Comic books are creative genres that use dialogue, mood, and setting to entertain or make a point.)

Readers can develop skills to understand persuasive techniques and to distinguish fact from opinion.

Determine author’s purpose based on organizational structures, text features, and content

** Students will be UNDERSTAND: **

How can an author’s perspective inform readers or persuade the readers to change their thinking?

** Students will be ABLE TO: **


 * define persuasion
 * take a stance on an issue and identify two points of view
 * develop an opinion statement using a complex sentence structure
 * use appropriate transitional expressions to move a reader from one key point to the next
 * research and find factual explanations, real life examples, and evidence to back up claims
 * understand the use of a counter argument

1) Mentor Text 1: Read and annotate the mentor text. Jigsaw Activity