Writing a

PERSUASSIVE
ESSAY
Grade 9
What is an essay?
- The term coms from the French word essais,
which French Author Michel de Montaigne
used in 1592 as the title for his collections of
papers commenting on people and affairs.

- As a verb, to essay means to try or attempt,

and implies some modesty on the part of the
author who sees himself as attempting to
make a point.
 In writing persuasive essay:

A writer takes a
stand
For or against an issue

A writer uses
reason
To persuade the reader to accept a
certain viewpoint or take action.

A writer focuses on one

side
Simply bent on forwarding his
stand on an issue
 Read the Persuasssive essay example above and answer the
following questions:
1. What is Paine 4. What is the
trying to convey in central idea of
the third Paine’s essay? How
paragraph? does he develop
such idea?
2. What idea is 5. How persuasive
given emphasis in is Paine’e essay?
the final Discuss support to
paragraph? your opinion.
3. Identify two 6. How do you think a
emotions to which colonist whose
the writer appeals unquestionable loyalty
in his essay. to the British take
Paine’s conviction?
Write a persuasive essay
about your side on the
“Jeepney Phase Out.”
Give at least 3 reasons to
support your side.
Recognizing the Elements of a Short Story and a Play
First-person
POV Third-person
POV Third-person
Limited
● In stories told from the
first-person point of ● The narrator knows
view, the narrator is a everything that
character in the story. happens, including
what all the characters ● Tells only what one
think and feel character sees, thinks,
and feels.
 A. Dialogue
● In most plays, the entire story is told through dialog or
conversations among the characters. The reader or audience
learns what happens from what the characters say to each
other. In the written script for a play, the words said by a
character are printed after the characters name, No quotation
marks are used.
 B. Stage Directions
Stage directions are notes included in plays to help readers or
stage characters (actor and actresses) to picture the action.
These notes describe setting, lighting, sound effects, the
movements of characters, and the way in which the dialogue is to
be said. In most plays, the stage directions are printed in italics
inside parentheses.
 C. Acts and Scenes
An act is a unit of action in a play. A long play may have more
than one act. An act may include several scenes. A scene is a
unit of action that takes place in a single time and place.