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Persuasive Prompt Type #1: Persuasive Stance/Claim

Persuasive Prompt Type #1: Persuasive Stance/Claim. Definition: The traditional AGREE/ DISAGREE persuasive essay question.

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Persuasive Prompt Type #1: Persuasive Stance/Claim

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  1. Persuasive Prompt Type #1:Persuasive Stance/Claim • Definition:The traditional AGREE/ DISAGREE persuasive essay question. • Example: Many people believe that television violence has a negative effect on society because it promotes violence. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your response.

  2. Persuasive Prompt Type #2:“Persuasatory” Definition:The less concrete, less black/white essay question where you do not have to outright agree or disagree with an issue or position. Example : Many students would like to volunteer in their communities during their summer breaks. Are there any volunteering opportunities in your community? Write a multi-paragraph letter to a community leader persuading them to have you as their summer volunteer.

  3. Persuasive Stance ORPersuasatory? • Some people believe that personal electronic devices, such as smartphones, etc., should not be allowed in classrooms. What is your stand on this issue? Write a letter to your principal persuading him/her to agree with your position… • We all have favorite activities that we enjoy. Write an essay convincing readers to try the activity that you enjoy most…

  4. Persuasive Introductions EXAMPLES of Strategies

  5. Persuasive Introductions • Taking a Stand (Making a Claim) • Scenarios & Anecdotes • Inquiry/Questioning • Preparatory Information/Overview

  6. IneffectiveIntroductions • I hope you enjoy… • You are going to learn about… • This essay/letter is about… • I am going to tell you about…

  7. Persuasive Intros Taking a Stand #1 • Avoid “Because I Said So…” type reasoning in your essays. • Your goal should be 3 Reasons Why for your Claim or issue (Persuasive Stance/Claim). • Practice—In your notes, defend this statement/claim. The state should lower the voting age to 16. Reason 1 = in your notes Reason 2 = in your notes Reason 3 = in your notes Defend this statement EVEN IF YOU DON’T AGREE!

  8. Persuasive Intros Taking a Stand #2 • Practice—In your notes, write down the name of your favorite band, movie, book, etc. List three strong reasons WHY I (your reader) should listen to your favorite band, watch your favorite movie, or read your favorite book: Reason 1 = in your notes Reason 2 = in your notes Reason 3 = in your notes

  9. Persuasive Body Paragraphs EXAMPLES of Strategies

  10. Persuasive Body Paragraphs • Persuasive Language • Expert Testimony • House that Jack Built • Concession/Rebuttal • Compromise/Problem Solving • Facts/Statistics • Anecdotes

  11. Persuasive Language • It’s all about VOICE: • HOWyou say it—emotion words, repetition, etc. • Think POLITICAL SPEECHES and you are on the right track! • “I have a dream…” • Any chance you remember any WORDS associated with Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign?? • HOPE • CHANGE • Yes We Can

  12. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address • "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." • HINT: Repetition in THREES is a POWERFUL persuasive AND story-telling tool!

  13. Expert Testimony • Voices of Authority: • “As Dr. Kaeleb Newby on the board of the National Pediatrics Foundation states…” • “The First Amendment of our Bill of Rights declares…” • Use 1+ arguments to support yourself! • “I think all school water fountains should be filled with Starbucks coffee, because…#1…#2…#3…” • Shoot for THREE reasons why in your declaratory/thesis statement and you are set! • 3 reasons = 3 body paragraphs for 5 paragraph essay

  14. Know these and use them!!!

  15. What does elaboration look like? • Phrases that add information and details through the following: STATISTICS and FACTS - the numbers or data that help support your idea. Mom, did you know that 98% of all my friends get to stay up until 1:00 AM on weekends? Well Son, did you know that 3 out of 4 parents would have grounded you for staying out so late? Lesson 1

  16. Develop your point with facts and statistics.Student Sample Another craze to sweep America was the gluten-free diet. It was reported in the newspaper after the last holiday season that 67% of all Americans were GF dieting. Let me tell you the personal impact that has had on my family’s wheat farm here in Washington. Lesson 1

  17. What does elaboration look like? • Phrases that add information and details through the following: ANECDOTE- an anecdote is a small piece of a story inserted into an essay that helps make the point. This sounds like. . . Hey, I remember the time when I had to carry my . . . Once when I was in middle school, the kids would always. . . Lesson 1

  18. Develop your point with an anecdote.Student sample You can’t give up, Jack. I remember one time when I played on the high school baseball team. We were losing, and it was the 8th inning. Everyone was getting discouraged, and then the coach said, “BOYS! You’ve got to RALLY here! Turn your ball caps around and GET OUT THERE!” So, son, turn your ball cap – I mean ATTITUDE -- around and get out there! Lesson 1

  19. Persuasive Conclusions EXAMPLES of Strategies

  20. Review: Conclusion Strategies • Call to Action • Offer a Solution • Make a Prediction

  21. Conclusions – Call to Action • Include a final appeal to you audience to reinforce your argument. • Clearly and forcefully state your desired action. • Give information needed to take that recommended action.

  22. Conclusions – Call to Actionstudent sample Daily mandatory homework for high school students would serve no real worthwhile purpose but to unnecessarily stress out students and teachers alike. Teachers and students are busy, stressed, preoccupied, and quite frankly, strung-out enough as it is without this. Please, I urge you not to put this in effect. Not simply because I don’t want homework for all seven classes every day, but because it would truly be detrimental to everyone actively participating in the public school now and in the future.

  23. Conclusions – Offer a Solution • Restate the problem. • Define and develop the solution. • Focus on the strengths of the solution. • This strategy differs from a call to action. • More of a recommendation • Stresses the solution to a problem

  24. Conclusions – Offer a Solutionstudent sample According to high schools with the highest test scores across the country, homework is only necessary when an individual student doesn’t understand a concept or needs additional practice. Therefore, mandatory homework in every class would be meaningless. Instead, teachers should assign homework on an individual basis. This solution would provide students with needed practice without needless busywork for students and endless grading for teachers. When students work on just their own weaknesses, rather than work assigned to the whole class, they will quickly see improvement and will be more motivated to stay in school.

  25. Conclusions – Make a Prediction • Takes the argument a step further than a summary. • Keeps the reader thinking after reading your essay. • Is based on the main points (arguments), creating joy, hope, gloom, suspense, etc. • Draws reader’s attention to the significance of the argument.

  26. Conclusions – Make a Predictionstudent sample Imagine an empty classroom. As students trickle in, without a word, they immediately take out a piece of paper and a pencil to start writing down today’s homework assignment. The teacher walks to the front of the class to admire her focused students as they work silently. Ring! Class is in session. We can make this longed-for dream a reality. Our high school’s motto has always been “Be the Best You Can Be” and if the required homework proposal is implemented, we really would be.

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