Writing
How do leaders get their message across?
Through their WORDS and their actions!
We are going to develop our PERSUASIVE WRITING skills through three tasks. Each task has quick writes or warm ups in them to build up to the writing task itself.
All of the writing tasks are found in your Google Classroom.
Watch THIS VIDEO for what we are doing in Writing this term!
Task 1 - Weeks 3-5
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Activity 1: A FOREST (ask your teacher for the extension task)
Activity 3: Video recap activity & Persuasive PEEL Paragraph
Task 2 - Weeks 6-8
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Activity 2: Hook and Conclusion
Activity 3: Write Your Own Pitch & (optional) Extension Activity
Task 3 - Weeks 9-11
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Activity 1: Lights, Camera, Action
Elsie Locke was a New Zealand writer, historian and activist. She wrote over 30 stories which have been published in New Zealand school journals.
The Competition: Write a fictional story (500-600 words) about someone who has just arrived in New Zealand - for full details click here. The winning article will be published in a School Journal and the author will receive $250!