CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.5

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Reading an Advertisement Poster and Essay

Before you create your own advertisement for a product, you should see how other writers persuaded their audiences to buy. Study the poster and essay below and think about how the writer convinced others to purchase the product.

Reading an Advertisement Poster

A persuasive poster uses visuals and words to connect a product to the needs of the audience. The graphics on the poster should not only grab the attention of the reader but also begin persuading the person. The slogan continues convincing readers by connecting to their desires. The call to action completes the persuasive pitch, asking the viewer to do something specific (buy the product!).

Sample Poster

Teaching Tip

Students can use the lessons learned from this persuasive poster to make their own extra credit persuasive posters after they have written their essays.

Respond to the poster.

Answer these questions about the poster.

How does the slogan get your attention?
How does the image help to persuade?
What action does the poster call you to do? What reason does it give you to take that action?

Reading an Advertisement Essay

A persuasive essay has three main parts. The beginning paragraph starts with a lead that grabs the reader's attention and ends with an opinion statement. The middle paragraphs give reasons to support the opinion. The ending paragraph restates the opinion and provides an important final thought or a call to action.

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Reading a Promotion Paragraph and Essay

Before writing to promote your own cause, you should see how other writers convinced their audiences. As you read the paragraph and essay below, think about how the writers put ideas together and how you might promote your own cause.

Reading a Persuasive Paragraph

A persuasive paragraph has three main parts. The topic sentence states the opinion. The body sentences support the opinion with reasons. The ending sentence restates or emphasizes the opinion.

Sample Paragraph

Save the Shelter

Topic Sentence:
Opinion The city animal shelter needs more support from all of us to continue helping animals and our community. Our shelter is the only one in the tri-county area that does not euthanize animals, but instead seeks homes for them. Body Sentences That makes it a critical resource for thousands of people. Local citizens adopt dozens of animals each week, giving them new starts on life. Each adopted animal is neutered or spayed so that it does not add to the problem of stray dogs and cats. The shelter also employs 15 full-time workers, giving them not just a paycheck but also an important mission to help our furry friends. Ending Sentences So, support the animal shelter through donations of food and cash as well as by speaking to your city council representatives. Together, we can help animals and enrich our own lives.

Respond to the paragraph.

Answer these questions about the paragraph.

How would you summarize the writer's opinion?
How would you summarize the three main reasons that support the opinion?

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Editing and Publishing Classification Essays

Editing Classification Essays

After you revise your classification essay, making major improvements, you need to edit it to correct any remaining errors. You'll look for problems with sentences, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, usage, and spelling. The following activities will help you edit your writing.

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Writing a Classification Essay

Once you finish prewriting, you are ready to create the first draft of your ideas. These writing activities will help you create a strong beginning, middle, and ending for your classification essay. You'll also read another student's essay to see how all of the parts came together.

Writing the Beginning Paragraph

The beginning of your classification essay should introduce your topic with some interesting background information and then give your focus statement.

Write your beginning paragraph.

Create your first paragraph, starting with interesting background information and moving toward your focus statement.

Lead Sentence

We humans have created devices, such as camouflage-patterned military fatigues and pepper spray, to protect ourselves in dangerous situations.

Detail Sentences

Have you ever wondered where we got the ideas for these tools? They may have come from examples set by other members of the animal kingdom. Animals face many dangers in their environments, and they have some unusual and inspired methods of defense.

Focus Statement

Three ways in which animals protect themselves are by changing colors, releasing chemicals, and giving up a body part.

Writing the Middle Paragraphs

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Reading a Classification Paragraph and Essay

This lesson lets you discover how another student explored categories in a classification paragraph and essay.

Reading a Classification Paragraph

A classification paragraph has three main parts. The topic sentence names the broad topic and gives a thought or feeling about it. The body sentences break the topic down into categories. The ending sentence sums up the topic and its categories. This paragraph tells about the parts of a medieval suit of armor.

Sample Paragraph

Head-to-Toe Protection

Topic SentenceKnights in shining armor had protection from their heads to their toes. The helmet and gorget protected the head and neck of the knight. Body SentencesShoulder pieces and brassards protected the upper arm, while elbow pieces and gauntlets protected lower down. A breastplate and back plate kept the knight's torso from harm. Then, from the skirt of tasses at the hip down to the jambeaus and sollerets at the ankles and feet, the knight became a metal-clad man. Did you notice that many of the unfamiliar words were French? Ending SentenceThat's because the ruling class in England were Norman invaders who spoke French, and they were the only ones who could afford full plate armor!

Respond to the paragraph.

Answer the following questions about the paragraph.

How did the writer break down the parts of the suit of armor?
What context clues can you use to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words like gorget and brassards?
Given that many of the unfamiliar words were French, what can you infer about medieval England based on other words with French roots: government, soldier, legal, and bank?

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