Persuasive Writing on Helping Haiti

In your classes, you have already worked on Persuasive writing or you will me working on persuasive writing pieces this month.



Goal: Persuasive writing is used to convince the reader of a stated opinion or belief.



In persuasive writing, it is the writer’s job to persuade or convince the reader to understand their view points and opinions. The writer must use facts to support their viewpoints to make the reader believe in what they are writing about. Persuasive pieces can be written in different forms such as essays or letters.

Click on this link to see examples of Persuasive writing by students:



Example 1- http://www.thewritesource.com/studentmodels/we-adptpet.htm



Example 2- http://www.thewritesource.com/studentmodels/we-tchrdiff.htm





Activity:



Click this link to read this article on the Time for Kids website: http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/wr/article/0,27972,1956443,00.html




In the article, it states how people of all ages are helping Haiti pick up the pieces after the earthquakes and the traumatic events that have taken place in that country. After reading this article you need to think of a way that YOU could help raise money to send to Haiti.



Assignment:



Use this activity as an outline to give reasons on why people should support your idea in your efforts to Help Haiti and use facts and details from the article you read. Click on this link and complete the outline:

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/
 if a printer is available print out the completed outline.



Then save and attach your response to an email to Ms. Torrence at mstorrence@gmail.com