Today, we worked through the steps in the process of persuasive writing. We began by looking at the episode of Toddlers and Tiaras which we viewed last day, and we debriefed what we thought the girls had been taught to value, as well as the qualities and skills we thought they were learning as a result of their participation in the beauty pageants.
Then, we constructed a "Seeing Both Sides" brainstorm, in response to the question: Are beauty pageants for young girls a good idea? We listed many reasons why we thought beauty pageants were bad, plus we added one piece of evidence why someone might think they are acceptable.
Finally, we organized our ideas, using a persuasive paragraph template. We labeled the topic sentence, transitions, evidence plus examples and concluding sentence. The final step would be actually writing the paragraph, using the template as a guide.
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