How writers persuade: High school reading & writing
Rhetorical analysis: situation, claims, evidence, reasoning and style. A free High school lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: rhetorical analysis: situation, claims, evidence, reasoning and style.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: How is this writer trying to win me over?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: how writers persuade.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: Trail: Rhetorical analysis (https://peabody.kids/world/write/write-rhetorical-analysis)
- Play: Rhetoric (https://peabody.kids/words/c8-rhetoric)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about how writers persuade, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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