Climate ChangeGreenpeace UK webpage

Objectives

• To annotate the text for key features of persuasion and of a web page

• To practise analytical writing skills by creating group PEE responses

• To practise creative writing skills by using the article as stimulus for a persuasive letter

Starter

• Quickwrite as many persuasive devices as you can in 2 minutes. These can be at word, sentence and whole text level.

Who is the audience and what is the

purpose?• In table groups answer the

above questions and be ready to share with the class (3 mins discussion before feeding back)

Group annotation

• Change table groups and now use different coloured pens to identify informational features and persuasive features.

• Use different colours for each (black pen for persuasive devices/ blue pen for informative)

• Spend 5-7 minutes on your text then rotate to other tables, 2 more times and then return to you ‘home table’

Individual annotation

• Back at your home table, copy down the annotations (colour code please)

PEE analytical response

• What devices does the writer utilise to persuade us to take action?

• Use the above topic ( imagine it is the exam questions) to write your first paragraph in response on your computers.

• You have 7 minutes

Rotate to a new response

• When your time is up, rotate yourself clockwise to your partner’s response.

• When you have the new response in front of you read it and finish it off quickly if it needs it!

• Now EITHER, rewrite if you think it could do with redrafting, OR continue on to the next paragraph … continuing the response on.

• You have 7 minutes

Next rotation

• Continue to rotate the piece until your teacher tells you to stop (or when you have seen 3 new responses).

• You cannot redraft a paragraph if it has already been redrafted once- you must move to write a new PEE paragraph.

What makes this a webpage?

• Brief class discussion on what makes this a webpage and its key features

• Students to annotate these features onto their text

• This task should take 10 minutes only

Creative response

• Write a letter to your school principal trying to persuade him to create a more environmentally friendly school.

• Write for at least 20 minutes (the time you will have in the exam)

• Swap with a partner who will check for use of imagery and punctuation and provide a comment, then continue redrafting until end of lesson