Persuasive writing to raise public awareness
| Grade | Work Samples |
|---|---|
| Midway through Stage 5 (end of Year 9) | |
| Grade A | Jody |
| Grade C | Lesley Ricky |
- New Work Samples
- Sam
Description of activity
Students compose a persuasive text to raise public awareness about an issue that they think is important.
Context
Students have gained an understanding of the language forms, techniques and structures used in a range of persuasive texts. They have composed a range of persuasive texts for specific audiences and purposes.
Areas for Assessment
Outcomes
A student:
1. responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure
6. experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts
7. thinks critically and interpretively using information, ideas and increasingly complex arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of contexts
9. demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds
Criteria for assessing learning
(These criteria would normally be communicated to students with the activity.)
Students will be assessed on their ability to:
- select an appropriate text that demonstrates understanding of the relationship between audience, purpose, language choices and form
- use persuasive techniques to raise awareness about an issue
- demonstrate knowledge of the conventions of writing a persuasive text for a particular audience and purpose.