L'O' Identify persuasive writing techniques' Write a persuasive letter'

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L.O. Identify persuasive writing
techniques. Write a persuasive letter.
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Learning outcomes

• Able to use a variety of written language when
  writing to persuade people.

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Overview

• It was World Leprosy Day on Sunday the 25
  January. This year The Leprosy Mission is
  focusing on a project in Chanchaga, a rural
  village in Nigeria.
• Today we are going to help the people in
  Chanchaga create write a persuasive letter to the
  Nigerian government asking for money to help
  build houses, schools and safe drinking water.

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• Have you ever tried to persuade someone to do
  something before? Maybe you have tried to
  persuade your parents to buy you some sweets!

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• Turn to a partner and share how you tried to
  persuade the person to do what you wanted.
• Share a couple of stories with the whole class.
• Did they succeed? Why?

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• Now lets look at persuasive writing.
• Persuasive writing puts forward a point of view
  and attempts to get the reader to agree with it.
• For example
• I am the best football player in the class.
  This is true because I scored the most goals last
  week!

Here is the point of view.
Here they start to try and persuade you to agree
with the statement.
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Language

• written in the present tense
• includes emotive language
• includes rhetorical questions
• makes your opinion sound like it is a fact
• uses powerful adjectives and verbs
• uses statistics and facts that help your argument
• use logical cause and effect connectives

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How should it be structured?

• Start the argument with your statement / point of
  view. Remember it needs to immediately catch the
  readers interest / attention.
• Explain your position on the issue being covered.
• The heart of the letter includes arguments that
  support your initial statement.
• End with a summary.

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Identify elements

• You should raise my pocket money. Everyone else
  in my class is given far more pocket money than
  me. John Smith receives a whole 3 more than me
  which is dreadfully unfair. If you gave me 3
  more I could save up for a new Play Station 3
  game for Christmas. It is also important to
  highlight that you have not raised my pocket
  money allowance for three years! Jo, who is in
  the top set for Maths, said that because you have
  not raised it inflation means I cannot buy as
  much. I am not quite sure what inflation is, but
  it does not sound good. I am willing to do more
  chores around the house, if I really have to.
  Also, if you really love me, you would seriously
  think about giving me more money. Finally you
  have to ask yourself, is my allowance really
  fair?

Present tense (green) / Emotive language (red) /
Rhetorical questions (blue) / Fact (pink) /
Powerful adjectives and verbs (orange) /
Statistics (purple) / Logical cause and effect
connectives (grey)
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Activity one

• Khana is a very dry village and has suffered
  from a recent drought. The nearest well is 5
  miles away. The community has 150 adults and
  children and is very poor with 70 of the people
  in Khana not owning land. Most people earn a
  living by being a labourer for the people who do
  own land. Some people own cattle and goats but
  are losing many of them as they cannot afford the
  veterinary fees. 90 of the houses are in very
  poor condition and in desperate need of repair.

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Lagos, the nearest large city, is 50 miles away
and too far to walk to. It is important because
that is where they could sell their food and
various clothes they make. The roads are also
very poor. The nearest school is 5 miles away and
most parents cant afford to send their children
there due to the cost of school uniforms and
books. The government can only afford two
teachers at the school which means there are over
100 children in each class.
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Ten people have leprosy and they have to live in
rundown houses on the edge of the village. The
village has a local clinic, but the government
cannot afford to provide a doctor. There is a
nurse, but she charges extra money to supplement
her salary. The village has one shop, but it does
not stock many products due to the problems of
transporting them from Lagos. Finally Khana only
has two toilets which results in diseases
breaking out. The people of Khana decide that
the problems are becoming too much and something
needs to be done. They decide they want to write
a letter to the government to ask for their help.
However, they dont know how to write it. Can you
help them?
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Writing frame

• Dear Sir,
• Our village desperately needs money for
  
• ..
• ..
  
• ..
• ...
  
• ...
  
• Reasons / Facts / Evidence to back up my point of
  view
• ...
  
• ...
  
• ...
  
• ...
  
• ...
  
• ...
  
• ...
  
• ...
  
• ...
  
• ...
  

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Useful words Next, finally, I, we, you, in
addition, furthermore
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Activity two

• Ask the children to swap the letters with a
  partner. Using the colours, highlight the
  following sections.
• Present tense (green)
• Emotive language (red)
• Rhetorical questions (blue)
• Fact (pink)
• Powerful adjectives and verbs (orange)
• Statistics (purple)
• Logical cause and effect connectives (grey)

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Debate

• A village meeting has been arranged with
  government officials. This is the chance for the
  villagers to explain why they need the money. The
  government officials do not have much money to
  give so they are not going to just hand it over.
  You are going to have to persuade them.
• Choose a group to work together to represent the
  Nigerian government. Explain that they are going
  to have to argue why they cannot give any money.
  Some ideas could be
• We dont have enough money because we are a poor
  country.
• There are other villages that need the money
  more.
• How do we know you are going to spend the money
  on what you say?
• Government officials sit at the front of the
  class and look very official. The rest of the
  children are the villages and you have to
  persuade these officials to give them the money.
• Ask one child to sit on the side and decide
  which group wins the debate and to pick out
  particular persuasive words they use to help win
  the debate.

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