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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.