Lesson Two: English, Yr 7/9

Identifying and Using Persuasive Techniques in a Text

Curriculum links: Year 7 – ACELA1536 Year 9 – ACELA1770

Resources you will need

Lesson structure

  1. Using the Lesson 2 Persuasive Writing PowerPoint slides, teach students about the various different techniques used by writers to increase the persuasiveness of their writing.
  2. At the relevant point during the presentation, distribute to students the following text: Lynn Simpson, ‘My 57 Voyages: Cruelty Onboard Australia’s Live Export Ships’ (2018), published on the Voiceless blog
  3. Distribute the Techniques of persuasion worksheet to each student.
  4. Ask the students to fill in the worksheet by identifying the different techniques of persuasion used in the provided text. Students can work individually, or in groups.
  5. Using the Lesson 2 Persuasive Writing PowerPoint slides, discuss the different techniques used in the provided text.


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AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT

Learning Area: English
Year Levels: Year 7/Year 9
General Capabilities: CCT, L, PSC, EU, IU
Strands:  Text Structure and Organisation
Content Descriptions: 

Year 7 (English Language) 

Understand how modality is achieved through discriminating choices in modal verbs, adverbs, adjectives and nouns (ACELA1536)

Year 9 (English Language)

Compare and contrast the use of cohesive devices in texts, focusing on how they serve to signpost ideas, to make connections and to build semantic associations between ideas (ACELA1770)
Elaborations:

Year 7

Observing and discussing how a sense of certainty, probability and obligation is created in texts.

Year 9

Sequencing and developing an argument using basic language structures that suggest conclusions (‘therefore’, ‘thus’ and ‘so’) or give reasons (‘since’, ‘because’) or suggest conditionals (‘if’… ‘then’).
Cross-Curricular Priority:

Sustainability
Acknowledgments

This Australian Curriculum alignment statement is based on the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) materials, which are licensed under CC BY 4.0. The material has been modified from the Australian Curriculum website (accessed April 2019).

All activities have been created by educators for educators and are linked to the Australian Curriculum (Version 8.4). We advise teachers to consult the ACARA website for the most up-to-date curriculum outcomes.

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