Having learned about one genre of persuasive writing, advertising, in the last few weeks we've moved on to discuss speeches and debates. We worked to prepare convincing arguments with strong introductions and conclusions to persuade our friends of our perspectives. We used techniques like rhetorical questions, statistics and emotive language to strengthen our arguments. We worked both individually and in groups to argue the following motions:
- Homework should be banned.
- Children should be paid for going to school.
- Children should only be allowed to play computer games for two hours per week.
We learned that sometimes you have to put your personal feelings on a topic aside to present the best argument. Well done everyone!
- Homework should be banned.
- Children should be paid for going to school.
- Children should only be allowed to play computer games for two hours per week.
We learned that sometimes you have to put your personal feelings on a topic aside to present the best argument. Well done everyone!