Writing Persuasive Essays

The students have been working on persuasive essays these past couple of weeks. We have been studying the planets and author's purpose so they are writing pieces trying to persuade an alien to come move to their imaginary planet!

This is the flow map I introduced them to, to help guide them through their writing.

Here is an example of a student's introduction.

They brainstormed things their planet had using a circle map.

Then they organized their writing and wrote out the sequence using a flow map.

After they planned out their writing with thinking maps, they began writing their rough draft. They wrote in a different color for each section. This way, they could see if one paragraph was a lot longer than the others and see how the different parts created one entire piece.