Saturday, July 30, 2011

Google Docs - Persuasive Speech

The start of Term 3 signals the beginning of Integrated Curriculum for the Secondary Three students, which I recall is into the second year. We have met up during numerous PD-IC sessions to improve on the scheme and the girls have had many lessons to prepare them for the performance task, which is to create a talk show to persuade a designated target audience to live healthily. Learning how to write persuasively is therefore an essential skill to teach and we got the groups to create samples of persuasive speech as practice.

Here's a sample:

One thing I could have done differently, if I had the time, would be to get each group to give comments.