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Persuasive Writing with Terry Fox.An exercise in writing persuasive letters.

+Objectives

Students will:

Create a persuasive letter that will be used to raise funds for the schools annual Terry Fox Run

Be able to organize a text within a pre-determined structure

Extend written letters to the public domain.

+Lesson Plan A brief overview

Marathon of Hope reintroduction

Review homework from last class (Students had to fill out “Hello, Terry Foxers” sheet at home with family)

Have students share their answers

Watch “I am Terry Fox” video

(5 minutes)

+Lesson Plan continued. Hand out Terry Fox’s

persuasive letter to students

Recap previous lessons “State Your Position” activity --> explain purpose for activity

Inform students of Persuasive Writing activity

10 minutes

Hand out persuasive letter Template

Give students some topic sentences

Ask if there are any questions

5 minutes

+Lesson Plan continued. Have students fill

out their template and begin writing their rough draft

have students hand in rough draft paragraph for teacher to mark, this will be handed back next class for students to correct.

20 minutes

Explain that the final draft will be put on a pledge sheet with school heading for kids to distribute around their neighborhood to collect pledges

10 minutes

+Adaptations For students with IEP designated difficulties with written output, students may create a persuasive poster for the annual Terry Fox Foundation contest as opposed to the paragraph.

+Extensions

Students may contribute a blog entry at the Terry Fox Foundation website:

https://www.terryfox.org/cgi/page.cgi/shareyourstories.html

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Assessment

At the end of the class students will submit their paragraph drafts for the instructor to mark and hand back next class.

Students will then make the corrections and submit their final copies to the instructor to be formatted onto a pledge sheet.

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Moving Forward

Moving Forward:

The marked/edited outline will be drafted and the final draft will

appear on their personalized pledge

sheet

“personalization” will also include Terry Fox

related clip art”

 

 

+Resources

https://www.terryfox.org/cgi/page.cgi/shareyourstories.html