Lesson 8

Take Action - Writing Persuasively

Adding Comparisons to
Support Your Claims

Objectives

After this lesson, students will be able to:

  • Develop an outline for their commentary
Overview/Purpose:
Students revise their commentaries to add comparisons.
Guiding Questions:
  • How can adding comparisons strengthen our commentaries?
Recommended Time:
45 minutes
Common Core State Standards:
Materials:
Commentary packet from Lesson 1.
Technology Required:
None
Lesson Design:
  • Explain that good persuasive writers use comparisons to support their claims.
  • Comparisons can…
1. Be written as similes
2. Be written as metaphors
3. Use hyperbole
  • Ask students to find examples of comparisons in the Commentary Packet.

  • Share discovered examples.

  • Students find places in their drafts where they might be able to add effective and compelling comparisons as support.
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