To help us understand the structure of persuasive writing, we brought OREOs into the classroom today! While we had a great time eating them, and completing the OREO challenge - the purpose of this was to help the students understand and remember to write using their OREOs:
O pinion
R eason
E xample
O pinion
We used the latest announcement from Hekia Parata, the Minister of Education about Community Of Online Learning (COOL) as our base board for our work today. We listened carefully for the different perspectives given in the report - knowing that facts are valuable, and therefore could be something we could include in our own writing. We wrote them around the outside of the clip - which is why they look so strange.
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We talked about what COOLs were, how they would work and looked at some of the media coverage from this announcement. Interestingly, the students formed their opinions about these very quickly, and not in the way I was expecting! Unanimously, the students thought this was a bad idea - no matter how much I tried to (strategically) convince them otherwise! I thought and had prepared to argue the opposite!
The students brainstormed their ideas, and then ranked them according to their strengths. They also needed to decide who they wanted to be their audience - with many of them asking me if they could send their writing to the Minister when they finish! It was great to see such a buzz!
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