Aim: How can we get the persuasive part of the project to rough draft?

Aim: How can we get the persuasive part of the project to rough draft?

Do Now: Get ready to share your group’s persuasive first paragraph, and/or what the opinion will be in your group’s article. (2 min.)

Materials:
• Macs, class blogs
• Magazine project handouts
• Persuasive first draft

1.) Procedures: Elicit Do Now responses. (5 min.)

2.) Mini Lesson: Research skills.

Let’s see your researching skills at work:

Who will be the first student to get the answers to these questions?

Directions: Use a search engine and be the first student to get the answers to all these questions due to your researching skills:

Find out what the high and low temperatures will be tomorrow.

Define triskaidekaphobia.

How many lines are in a limerick?

Who was the last NASCAR driver to win the Winston Cup?

What is the high school graduation rate in our state?
(5 min.)

3.) Share Out: Let’s see who can answer all these questions due to their researching skills.

4.) Group Work: Now the person who is writing the persuasive article should get that article to a rough draft.

The other members of the group should start brainstorming their ideas for the research article and the the two open topic articles.

By the end of today, you should have and e-mail to me your first draft of your persuasive article.