Advocacy Lesson 2

• Objective: Students will reread for significance

• Warm-up: What are some issues that concern you? Why?

Homework Review

• What does it mean to persuade people through writing?

• In order to persuade people through writing, writers must_________________.

Significance

What are the 3 most significant sentences or phrases that reveal the writer’s argument or what the writer

wants to convince the reader to do or believe? Significant Phrases What does this reveal

about the speaker’s argument?

Reflect

1. How did you decide which sentences or phrases to select?

2. Which one or two of the sentences shared today helped you the most to make sense of the writer’s argument? Why?

3. What specific characteristics of those examples made them effective?

___________are features that make this letter an effective persuasive text because__________.

Step Back

1. What are some things you noticed about the work you did today?

2. What are some things you learned and how did you learn them?

3. What supported your learning?

Reread

• Is this letter persuasive?• Do you think it would be persuasive to the

Board of Education? Why?