Scaffold 1: Persuasive Text – Graphic Organizer

Instructions: Write about the importance of making our own decisions in life. Explain and give three reasons
on why we should arrive at our own decisions. Convince your readers that our own decisions are the best for us.
Use the graphic organizer below in doing this activity.

Thesis Statement:
Deciding what to wear

Reason 1: Reason 2: Reason 3:

Our choice of clothing is Pick clothes that makes you feel Select clothes appropriate to the
important to express our good and comfortable. weather.
identity.

Explanation/Details: Explanation/Details: Explanation/Details:

Each person has a choice about
how they live their life. Be the
driver and not the passenger
because it’s your life.
Picking an outfit to wear is
stressful, you have to choose the
right clothes that gives a good
impressions. Unusual clothing
choices can be laughed and
subjected to other forms of
abuse.
When dressing for humidity
choose outfits that fall away on
your body and touch your skin
as little as possible. Pick warm
fabrics like wool or flannel and
avoid cotton for cold weather.

What is the counterargument against your position?

Latest style and trends are affordable. People want to shop to be fashionable thinking that they are
smarter and better but I do believe that what you wear matters. You dress presentably to gain respect
and respect and boosts self-esteem.