Learning Experience 4

Lesson Duration: 90 minutes

Learning Objectives: Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts,
choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources
appropriate to purpose and audience(ACELY1714)
Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers (ACELY1801)
Classroom Organization:
Students will be sitting at their desks in their groups shown in Learning Experience 1. It will start with
a class discussion before going down to group work
Learning Experiences:
1. As a class, read the quote from Vince Toohey on page 70 of Maybe Tomorrow
2. Discuss the problem that Vince Raises. What is sustainability? How can we try fix it? What
does his comparison to the Romans mean?
3. Ask how we might be able to use this passage to stop others polluting.
4. Discuss persuasive texts. What they are, how they are made up etc.
5. Start to look explicitly at the language involved.
6. Talk about the introduction of a persuasive text
7. Write some examples relevant to students on the board e.g. Schools shouldnt have
uniforms, tuck shop should sell junk food etc
8. Students will be handed butcher paper
9. Groups will have one minute to decide who will be a scribe for their group
10. They now make a concept map with as many ideas as possible as to why schools should or
shouldnt have uniforms.
Assessment
Students will be formatively observed based on an academic and social level. Their contribution to
the group and appropriateness of answers will all be monitored.