This term we are looking at persuasive writing.  We started with the students creating some arguments for sitting wherever they chose for their learning (none convinced me enough to give students that condition!  Perhaps by the end of the unit?).

We are reading a book called Frindle, by Jack Clements.  Jack has decided that ‘pens’ should be called ‘frindles’ and he has convinced his school and town to start calling them that!

We thought about what we might call a pen – coming up with, long colouring thing, writing stick, peggi, ink spreader, not sure any of them are going to catch on!  We’ll see how students’ powers of persuasion work!

This unit is not only opening student up to the power of persuasion, but also looks at synonyms, language features such as metaphors and similes and compares school life in America to that in Australia.