Language Arts: Week of Oct 27 - 31, Lesson 5, The Hamburger Model of Persuasive Writing

Teacher/Grade: Ms. Gene – 6^th

Subject: Language Arts

Persuasion – Lesson 5, The Hamburger Model of Persuasive Writing

What we will learn (objectives):

Introduce persuasive writing through the use of the Hamburger Model

What we will read or study (content):

Why You Should Become a Vegetarian

Hamburger Model of Persuasive Writing

Jumbled Paragraph

How we will study it (process):

Monday, Oct 27 and Tuesday, Oct 28

Gifted Ed teacher will handout “Why You Should Become a Vegetarian” and have class read as whole group. Explain that writing is one way that you can persuade/be persuaded.

Gifted Ed teacher will share the Hamburger Model and have students compare the vegetarian piece to the model, making an actual “paper hamburger” with the correct quotes from the vegetarian piece. Gifted Ed teacher will provide paper and scissors. Gifted Ed and Regular Ed teachers will monitor progress.

When students have completed their “hamburgers” the following questions will be used to guide the discussion led by the Gifted Ed teacher: What is the top bun? What is the writer’s meat? How many reasons does the author provide? What are the “fixins”/details to the paragraph? What is the bottom bun? Regular Ed teacher will monitor.

Wed, Oct 29

Regular Ed teacher will have teams complete the Jumbled Paragraph using the Hamburger Model. Label each section. Share as class. Consider “clue words”. Have students suggest ways the paragraph could be more convincing and add those pieces. Gifted Ed teacher will monitor.

Thurs, Oct 30

Regular Ed and Gifted Ed teachers will monitor the partner groups as they write a Hamburger paragraph arguing a point of view about whether students should receive awards for good grades in school. As teams finish, the Gifted Ed teacher will make a copy as an answer key and give the original to another group to put back into correct order. Have new group label the pieces (top bun, meat, etc.) Share with class and check with answer key.

This group will make suggestions on how to improve the paragraph and add those pieces.

Friday, Oct 31

CBM:

The student govt. has been given $500 to do something to benefit the school. Take a point of view on how you think the money should be spent and write a Hamburger paragraph defending your opinion.

Extension (if resources are available)

Introduce the Writing Computer Center. Students will have opportunity to practice the stages of writing and the format of the persuasive paragraph. Have a list of suggested writing topics. Students will compose paragraphs, work in pairs to critique one another’s work, revise, edit and publish work.

How we will know we learned something (product):

Jumbled Paragraph

Point of view: Awards for Good Grades

Jumbled Paragraph – Awards for Good Grades