This document contains notes from an 8th grade language arts class on February 3, 2014. It includes assignments for an intro to a portfolio thesis, vocabulary writing, and a Harlem Renaissance presentation. Notes were taken on persuasive writing techniques, including defining persuasive writing, identifying characters' intentions, and discussing repetition as a persuasive technique. The document provides examples of persuasive language and techniques like quoting sources and using facts and statistics.

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8th Grade Language Arts
Assignments:
Agenda:
-Write an Intro to your portfolio
and thesis portfolio (W)
1. Independent Reading
2. Harlem Renaissance Questions
Vocab Writing (TH)
3. Thesis paper
-HR Presentation (TH 2/13)
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Notes
What Does This Article Try to Do?
The biggest cause of global warming is the carbon dioxide
released when fossil fuels —such as oil and coal — are burned
for energy. So when you save energy, you fight global warming
and save money, too.
What can you do?
You can:
• Raise your voice
• Choose renewable energy
• Offset your carbon foot print
Persuade
Information source: http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/gsteps.asp
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Persuasive Writing
What is persuasive writing?
It is a piece of writing
that argues the case of
the writer. It tries to
convince the readers
or influence the
readers' opinions.
Press the circle to view the definition.
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Check Your Understanding
1 What is the following statement trying to do?
It is good to avoid processed food, and choose fibrous food
as a healthy option.
A
Persuade
B
Warn
Select the correct answer.
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What Are These Characters Trying to Do?
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Let us not wallow in the valley of
despair, I say to you today, my
friends.
Not that I loved.
Caesar less, but that
I loved Rome more.
And so even though we face the
difficulties of today and tomorrow, I
still have a dream. It is a dream deeply
rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this
nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed: "We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal."
Press the images to know more.
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Why Persuade?
When you want someone to accept your viewpoint or when
you want to influence someone about which you might
emotionally feel about, you persuade.
urge someone, through
reasoning, to agree to a point
of view or to take a course of
action.
Persuade is to
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Check Your Understanding
2 When you persuade someone, you need to substantiate your
point of view.
Yes
No
Select the correct answer.
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Persuasion—Exercise
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"Homework is a
waste of
time."
How will you persuade your parents and teachers?
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Persuasion Techniques
While persuading, did you do any of this?
Quote someone
Give statistics, facts or reliable information
Make an emotional appeal
Enlist the trust of your audience
Emphasize the importance of your claim
Make repetitive claims
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Check Your Understanding
3 Repetition is one of the persuasive techniques.
True
False
Select the correct answer.
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Check Your Understanding
4 Persuasion means to seek the trust of your audience.
Yes
No
Select the correct answer.
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Identify Some Persuasive Techniques
"Business today consists in persuading crowds."
T.S. Eliot Quote someone
Access to piped water into the household averages about 85%
for the wealthiest 20% of the population, compared with 25%
for the poorest 20%. Provide data
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your
ears..." Make an emotional appeal
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Argument and Persuasion
Are persuasion and argument the same?
No
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Activity
Fast food is not a healthy option, yet careful food choices make
even fast food a healthy option.
This is
Persuasion
Argument
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Select the Correct Answer
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Points to Remember
Persuasion promotes opinion
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Makes personal appeals
Pull
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Facts and views overlap
May or may not consider
other points of view
Relies on repetition to drive
home the point
Pull
Pull
Pull
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Check Your Understanding
5 How does the following statement try to persuade the readers?
Three thousand nine hundred children die every day from
water borne diseases.
A
By furnishing data
B
By making an emotional appeal
Select the correct answer.
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Check Your Understanding
6 Quoting someone is one of the persuasive techniques.
True
False
Select the correct answer.
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Check Your Understanding
7 Well­researched statistics helps persuade the readers.
Yes
No
Select the correct answer.
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Check Your Understanding
8 Argument and persuasion are not the same, but they do
overlap.
Yes
No
Select the correct answer.
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Check Your Understanding
9 Which of the following presents the fact in a balanced
manner?
A
Persuasion
B
Propaganda
C
Argument
Select the correct answer.
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Check Your Understanding
11 Write five points about the following statement to persuade
your reader.
Children can contribute to the carbon foot print.
Content/writing space
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Check Your Understanding
12 Persuasion blends facts and emotions.
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True
False
Select the correct answer.
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