Direct Instruction
The learning intention for this lesson was for the students to identify and use persuasive techniques in their writing. The week prior we had read some persuasive essays and identified techniques such as repetition, imperative and the use of rhetorical questions. We then read the articles featured in the text in a guided reading session to unpack the key ideas, before critiquing the texts (as seen in the video). At this point I wanted them to start thinking about the choices that the authors had made when writing the articles. We then went on to write our own persuasive essays in response and you can see us giving some feedback in the latter half of the video.
