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Year 7: English

Year 7: English. Term 1 Learning Journey: Convince Me! P ersuasive Speech unit. The Journey Metaphor. Your task is to form an opinion on this subject and persuade others to agree with you.

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Year 7: English

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  1. Year 7: English Term 1 Learning Journey: Convince Me! Persuasive Speech unit

  2. The Journey Metaphor

  3. Your task is to form an opinion on this subject and persuade others to agree with you. You will need to conduct research that will construct support for your argument when attempting to persuade . Your attempt at persuasion can take the form of a multimodal text that effectively combines spoken, written and visual elements to persuade the Principal to agree with you.

  4. You will present your final draft during class time to the Principal, teacher and peers. • Your individual presentation should not be less than 5 minutes and not more than 10 minutes. • Your reflective self-assessment will be written as a diary entry in your journal. Due Date: Presentation: Week 7 Lessons 22 & 23 Reflective self-assessment: Lesson 24 Criteria and guidelines and relevant curriculum Conditions & Due Dates

  5. This is how we get there… Click here for the next leg of the journey…

  6. Are We There Yet? The Next Leg of the Journey The FINAL Leg of the Journey…

  7. The FINAL Leg of the Journey

  8. Australian Curriculum by end Yr 7 • Language for interaction • Understand the way language evolves to reflect a changing world, particularly in response to the use of new technology for presenting texts and communicating (ACELA1528) • Understand how language is used to evaluate texts and how evaluations about a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources (ACELA1782) • Text structure and organisation • Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors (ACELA1531) • Understand that the coherence of more complex texts relies on devices that signal text structure and guide readers, for example overviews, initial and concluding paragraphs and topic sentences, indexes or site maps or breadcrumb trails for online texts (ACELA1763) • Expressing and developing ideas • Understand how modality is achieved through discriminating choices in modal verbs, adverbs, adjectives and nouns (ACELA1536) • Analyse how point of view is generated in visual texts by means of choices, for example gaze, angle, and social distance (ACELA1764) • Literature and context • Identify and explore ideas and viewpoints about events, issues and characters represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1619) • Responding to literature • Discuss aspects of texts, for example their aesthetic and social value, using relevant and appropriate metalanguage (ACELT1803). • Interacting with others • Identify and discuss main ideas, concepts and points of view in spoken texts to evaluate qualities, for example the strength of an argument or the lyrical power of a poetic rendition (ACELY1719) • Use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information, selecting body language, voice qualities and other elements (for example music and sound) to add interest and meaning (ACELY1804) • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to promote a point of view or enable a new way of seeing (ACELY1720) • Interpreting, analysing, evaluating • Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose (ACELY1721) • Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources (ACELY1723) • Compare the text structures and language features of multimodal texts, explaining how they combine to influence audiences (ACELY1724) • Creating texts • Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725) What knowledge and skills am I gaining in ‘layman’s terms’?

  9. Your presentation needs to: • Be presented according to the structure of persuasive texts. • Have you described the topic? • Have you stated your opinion? • Check your tense • Include a wide range of persuasive devices and vocabulary. • Are you using rhetorical questions? • Metaphors or similes • Emotive language • Combine multimodal elements to convey meaning. • Sound, images, text and body language to convey meaning • Include a variety of ideas and information to support your argument. • Have you researched and found credible sources? • Have you referenced them? • Be well presented. • Think about the speed/pace of your speech • Can everyone hear you? • Are you engaging the audience using body language (gesture, eye contact) • Your self-assessment reflection must be critical. • Think about what you did well • What could you have done better? • What would you do differently next time?

  10. Self-Assessment KWL for lesson 18 Notes:

  11. These are thinking skills. There are graphic organisers you can use to scaffold your thinking as you work through each process within the unit. Whilst we will use many thinking skills, such as comparing, classifying and decision making, this unit’s focus is on the processes of: Analysing Perspectives Constructing Support Problem Solving Complex Reasoning Processes

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