6th+Grade+Persuasive+Writing+Lesson

Class: Writing/Language Teacher: Mrs. Joy Schott School: Burwell Public School

**Materials:**pencil, paper, colored highlighters (green, yellow,pink/red), and green, yellow, red/ pink strips. **Teacher Note:**This lesson is being used as a guided practice.Students will be given the topic, Big Ideas, and conclusion. **Purpose of Lesson:** The purpose of this lesson is to write apersuasive paragraph with guided practice on using the colored sentence strips. **Duration of Lesson:** Students are given the topic, position,and the conclusion. Time allotted for this lesson may be 1 week **Day 1: Brainstorming**Students will be given the Topic: Wearing uniforms to school would reduce bullying. The position will be: Uniforms will reduce fad competition, varying socioeconomic factors, and inappropriate attire such as logos or sizing issues. Students will use clouds to brainstorm both the topic and the position. We will brainstorm as a whole group. **Day 2: Planning:**Since the students will be given the topic sentence the next step will be tolook for their Big Ideas. They will be using their position brain cloud from day 1. Students should come up with at least 3 Big Ideas. **Day 3: Number Notes-**I plan to introduce Number Notes in this guided practice. Students will use their Big Ideas from day 2. **Day 4: Highlighting-**The next step will be to list supporting details. As we write our topic we will highlight in green, Big Ideas in yellow, supporting details in pink/red, and conclusion in green. **Day 5: Verbalize-**Have students take out their highlighted visual from day 4. Students will turnto a partner and verbalize their persuasive paragraph out loud using their highlighted papers. **Day 6: Reinforce-**Teacher hands out colored sentence strips according to their plan. Write sentences on the coordinating color strips. Have students put their paragraph together using their strips to reinforce the form of the paper. **Day 7: Share and Conclude-**Students share their persuasive paragraphs within their groups. Planning will be put in writing folder and may be brought out at another time for revising,editing, and publishing.
 * Lesson: **Students will be asked to write a persuasive paper on the topic: __Why wearing uniforms to school will would reduce bullying__