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DEVELOPING ACADEMIC LANGUAGE IN THE ELL CLASSROOM AN INTEGRATED PERSUASIVE WRITING UNIT

DEVELOPING ACADEMIC LANGUAGE IN THE ELL CLASSROOM AN INTEGRATED PERSUASIVE WRITING UNIT. Cathy Whitlow San Antonio Writing Project. QUOTES. “ To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be creditable; to be credible we must be truthful.”  ― Edward R. Murrow

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DEVELOPING ACADEMIC LANGUAGE IN THE ELL CLASSROOM AN INTEGRATED PERSUASIVE WRITING UNIT

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  1. DEVELOPING ACADEMIC LANGUAGE IN THE ELL CLASSROOMAN INTEGRATED PERSUASIVE WRITING UNIT Cathy Whitlow San Antonio Writing Project

  2. QUOTES “To be persuasive we must be believable;to be believable we must be creditable;to be credible we must be truthful.” ―Edward R. Murrow “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ---Winston Churchill

  3. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ― Albert Einstein

  4. EXPLICIT WRITING INSTRUCTION Dean, D. and Grierson, S. (2005), Re-envisioning Reading and Writing Through Combined-Text Picture Books. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 48: 456–468. doi: 10.1598/JAAL.48.6.2 Fahnestock(1993) noted, “the ‘intuition’ that presumably suddenly appears in college-level writers...is instead likely to be the product of much earlier tuition” (p. 270). This “tuition,” in the form of guided practice, provides the scaffolding that allows students to develop sensitivity to different texts—what they do and how they do it.

  5. PERSUASIVE WRITING UNIT

  6. WHAT IS INVOLVED & HOW LONG? MOTIVATION/BUILDING SCHEMATA (1 day) MINILESSON: persuasive vocabulary (1/2 period) CYCLOPS/STEPPING INTO THE SHOES OF A CHARACTER (2-3 days) MINILESSON: review of complex sentences and punctuation (1/2 period) GENRE ANALYSIS (4 days) PERSUASIVE LETTER ASSIGNMENT (10 weeks) MOVIEMAKER PROJECT (8 days) ANSWER: 5-6 WEEKS

  7. SNAPSHOT A Day with Cyclops • READ THE STORY OF CYCLOPS • DISCUSS STORY ELEMENTS– antagonist, protagonist, setting, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution • DISCUSSION • How can Cyclops convince the reader that he really is a nice guy?

  8. SETTING MOTIVATION/BUILDING SCHEMATA • ADVERTISEMENTS • Television Ads • Persuasion in Print Ads • DREAM ACT • Dream Act Pros and Cons • Dream Act Videos and Letters • POLITICAL ADS • barackobama.com • FILMS • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner • Make a web on what makes effective persuasion

  9. BOOKS

  10. Stepping into the Shoes of the Character Activity Idea from: Why We Run With Scissors by Barry Lane and Gretchen Bernabei, pages 50- 51 and 244-246 • Read Cyclops. • Write “The True Story” from the voice of Cyclops to convince readers that he is really a nice guy. You may use any type of genre- poem, children’s books, want-ads, letter from the character to another, diary entry, legal document, prayer, song, etc. • Share Out • What techniques were used to persuade the reader? • Were these techniques effective

  11. GENRE ANALYSIS Activity • TEACH VOCABULARY AND ORGANIZATION • Class reads together “You Can Make a Difference” or “It’s Time to Junk Junk Food” and use “Use A Writer’s Eye Activity” • GALLERLY WALK: BAD SPORTS • First Group will “Use a Writer’s Eye” • All groups will add opinions to other’s work. • REVIEW ORGANIZATION AND VOCABULARY • Raise Your Hand for School Uniforms – Writer’s Response Sheet and Think Sheet • JIGSAW ACTITIVES

  12. USE A WRITER’S EYE

  13. Jigsaw Genre Analysis Activity NEISD Literature Book, 6th Grade

  14. NEISD Literature Book, 6th Grade

  15. PERSUASIVE LETTER ASSIGNMENT Activity • DISCUSS ASSIGNMENT • Requirements • Tips • BRAINSTORM/CHOOSE TOPIC (1 day) • RESEARCH (3 days) • THINK SHEET (1 day) • WRITE FIRST DRAFT • REVISE WITH PARTNER (2 days) • WRITE DRAFT 2 (1 day) • RATIOCINATE – EDIT AND REVISE (2 days) • PUBLISH (2 days)

  16. MOVIEMAKER PROJECT Activity

  17. Movie Maker Tutorial MovieMaker Tutorial

  18. Grade Level • Lower Grades – Less emphasis on academic language • Creating Posters, topic on something more concrete • Higher Grades – More emphasis on academic language – Aristotle’s division of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

  19. GLOBAL ISSUES Stand up for issues you believe in – environmental, political, educational Need to think critically about decisions that are affecting you. Democracy – Vote

  20. Disciplines • Science • Create an advertisement/commercial using facts and statistics from labs. • Write a letter to convince a company their practices are affecting the environment • Write a letter requesting grant money for a scientific study. • Why we need to conserve water; Recycle and reuse • Math • Persuade a peer to use your strategy to solve a problem • Social Studies • Write a letter to one of the writers of the Constitution persuading him to exclude one of the Bill of Rights • Additional Links • Persuasion Prompts for Social Studies and Language Arts • Persuasive Writing Ideas from Northern Nevada Writing Project

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