Lesson Plan
Linking the Logic
Are your students’ persuasive essays seamless and connected? In this persuasive writing lesson, students will learn how to write for a specific audience, linking opinions with reasons. Transition words are the missing links!
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Learning Objectives
Students will make connections between opinions and reasons. Students will organize persuasive essays for a specific audience.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Divide students into groups of three or four.
- Distribute one set of What’s the Logic? game cards per group of students.
- Have the students match the positions with the reasons.
- After you’ve given students five minutes to play the game, tell the students that they will be working on refining their persuasive writing -- specifically, using reasons to support their argument and linking these reasons to specific examples.