Revising your letter

Big Idea: How do the audience, purpose, and occasion affect the way we write?

Learning Target: 

Reading: Today you will read articles on Newsela for 10 minutes.

Agenda:

1. Rhetorical Situation: Letter to Wealthy Philanthropist
1. I will give you 3-5 minutes to finish your letter.
2. Go to GOOGLE CLASSROOM and click on the Peergrade link.
3. Each of you will read another student’s letter as if you were Rachel Hopkins—that is, you should imagine yourself the person who has made the offer of donating a beloved painting.
4. You will give feedback to three other students.
2. We are going to study ways to persuade people.


1. You will create a dialogue with a partner.
2. One of you will be the parent. The other partner will be a teenager.
3. You need to persuade the parent to do and get you something (i.e. driving lessons, your first car, etc.)
4. Your conversation must present reasons, assure your parent that you are responsible, and appeal to his or her emotions.
5. You will write a script like the one above.
6. Finally, go to Flipgrid and film your conversation.
3. Newsela reading assignment:
1. You need to read at least five articles this week from five different topics.
2. You need to pass the quiz for each article. Start on a higher difficulty of reading and then move down.
3. Screenshot your screen when you pass a quiz and paste it onto the Google Doc in GOOGLE CLASSROOM.
4. Write a one-sentence summary of the article. Your sentence must have exactly 15 words. I will check.
5. This is due on Friday.
6. If you finish before Friday, you may borrow one of the books from my bookshelf and read it for ten minutes.
7. Use this class code if you don't see quizzes after the articles: HZNDZD

Homework:

1. Make sure you started your new vocabulary assignment. It is due on Monday.