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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Grade 8: Writing a Persuasive Essay [Pdf]
Provides a student model of a persuasive essay on the topic of television violence. Allows students to examine content, format, and structure and includes notes and annotations as student aids throughout.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Unusual Friendly Letters: Persuasive Writing Techniques
In this lesson, students will use active voice in regards to persuasion. Lesson incorporates the A R.A.F.T. strategy: role, audience, format, topic.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating a Persuasive Podcast
This lesson unit has students research a local, state, national, or international issue of personal interest and create and share a two-minute persuasive podcast presenting their research-based opinions on the topic. It includes tools...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
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....
Other
Gvsu: Study Guide to Jane Austen's "Persuasion"
This in-depth study guide offers 22 different questions to think about when reading the novel, a list of notable phrases, and a short vocabulary list. Also contains links to other resources on the web.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Professional Writer's Models: Grade 10: Persuasive Essay [Pdf]
From the novel titled "We the Media," this essay from writer Adam Hochschild presents a persuasive argument against the volume of televisions in places of public transport. A good model which can be used as a resource for students.
TES Global
Tes: Writing to Persuade: Lesson Presentation
[Free Registration/Login Required] The PowerPoint lesson will guide students through the steps in persuasive writing.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Public Speaking and Persuasion: Improve Your School!
In this lesson, students watch two videos from China depicting public speeches about the first school government election. Then, they will create and give persuasive presentations of their own that will describe ways in which they would...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Persuasive Essay Worksheets
A collection of assignments related to persuasive writing are provided on this site. Scaffolded assignments related to writing an effective introduction and identifying both sides of an issue are included. Exemplar persuasive essays with...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Writing Persuasive Essays
Persuasive writing is the topic of this article. Students will learn the parts of the persuasive essay and how to write an effective persuasive essay.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Project Persuasion
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides persuasive essay graphic organizers. Students will be able to write a persuasive essay more efficiently by using these tools.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Developing, Writing, and Evaluating Persuasive Speeches
Contains plans for four lessons that teach learners how to make and present strong persuasive speeches. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment...
Other
Writing More Persuasively
This site is very thorough, and offers two printable .pdf pages of some important points.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Teaching Resource: Effective Persuasion: Power Point
A PowerPoint presentation introducing the elements of effective persuasive writing, including samples of various techniques.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Why Do Writers Write?
A slide show with nine slides explaining the author's purpose to persuade, inform, or entertain.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: I Wanna: Writing a Persuasive Letter
In this lesson, students will experiment with word choice as it relates to persuasion.
Other
Suny: Conventions of Writing Papers About Literature
A professor's excellent explanation of how to write a professional sounding essay. Covers all aspects of an essay, and detailed examples give information on exactly how to write the essay.
British Library
British Library: Austen's Persuasion: Status, Rank & Class
Through these activities, students will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of what gave Jane Austen's contemporaries status in their society; how important a person's rank and position in society was, and how knowing the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain
The goal of this activity is to understand how techniques of persuasion (including background, supporting evidence, storytelling and the call to action) are used to develop an argument for or against a topic. Students develop an...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: The Writing Center: Fallacies
Discussion of common fallacies, along with definitions, examples, and tips on avoiding them.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Free Speech and Persuasion in "Nothing but the Truth"
Contains plans for five lessons that use Avi's "Nothing But the Truth" to teach about free speech and give students an opportunity to develop persuasive arguments. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Persuasion Map [Pdf]
Use this graphic organizer to help build a persuasive piece of writing.
Other
Writing Persuasion
This site has a simple set of guidelines to use when writing a persuasive essay.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Writing the One Minute Persuasive Speech
This article focuses on writing a one-minute persuasive speech force students to be clear and concise and to hone debate skills. From there it suggests the use of improvisation speeches.