The Power of Persuasion
How We Affect Change
Project based learning created by
Charlotte Alonas
June 2010
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What is Project Based
Learning(PBL)?
Project Based Learning involves lessons
that are governed by questions that
guide and direct learning. Students will
be completing projects throughout the
course of the PBL to accomplish the
lessons’ goals.
 In this unit students will learn to identify
different types of persuasion.
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Why Project Based Learning
(PBL)?
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Students learn 21st Century Skills
through Project Based Learning (PBL).
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Students create unique and original
works throughout the year.
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Students “own” their learning by asking
questions and seeking answers.
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What are 21st Century Skills?
Three categories define 21st Century Skills.
They are:
• Life and Career Skills
• Learning and Innovation
• Information, Media, and Technology Skills
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What does this look like in the
classroom?
Real world skills such as team work and problem
solving in a group setting.
 Collaborative work where students are
responsible for their own learning.
 Self-reflection on their own learning and
controlling the pace and amount of learning that
takes place.
 Use of technology to support and enhance the
project.
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Essential Question
How Do We
Affect
Change?
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Unit Questions
(Guiding questions for the unit)
How are you persuaded?
 How can you be persuaded to change
your behavior?
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Content Questions
(Content area or definitional questions)
What is the author’s purpose for writing?
 What are appeals by association?
 What are emotional appeals?
 What is loaded language?
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Unit Summary – The Power of
Persuasion
 Students
will identify author’s
purpose.
 Students will learn to identify
different persuasive techniques.
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Objectives for this project
Teacher
Students
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Teach and guide students to:
 work independently
 work with partners
 work in small groups
Encourage students to be
creative
Ask open ended questions
where students come up with
their own answers
Provide plethora of
opportunities to use technology
in projects
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Work independently
Collaborate with partner
Collaborate in small groups
Create original writings
Discover answers on your own
Enjoy being creative
Identify persuasive techniques
Create projects with technology
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Student Outcomes
Personal narrative (Concept 1, PO1
 Poetry (Concept 1, PO1)
 Haiku
 Cinquain
 Free verse
 Quatrain
 Response to topics (Concept 2, PO2,
PO3)
 A “Project Based Learning”
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experience with Figurative Language
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Assessments
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In addition to the completed, original writings, students will be
assessed in various forms throughout each step of the persuasive
language project such as:
 Wikis
 Blogs
 Surveys
 Multiple choice questions – online
 Posters
 Brochures
 Presentations
See next page for more assessments
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Assessments (page 2)
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Additional assessments:
 “Publish” works by displaying in classroom, sending them to
companies/people, posting them online
 Creating a Windows Movie Maker movie where students can
narrate the Power Points and pictures associated with their
work
 Creating “games” to be used on the Smartboard
 Online games to practice and see different forms of persuasive
language
 Since project based learning is directed by teachers and
students, more assessments may be created based on the
needs and desires of the teacher/student partnership
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Questions? Comments?
Feel free to ask questions.
 Please give me feedback throughout
your learning process and let me know
how I can help you.
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