Persuasive & Argumentative Essay Paragraphs
By Kirra Griffin
Over the past few weeks, our class has been working on planning, drafting and editing our persuasive or argumentative, essays.
Between the two classes of the Lion’s Team, a few of the pieces argue about whether or not 5th and 6th graders should have school dances, be allowed to wear hats in school, and also some other things that don't have anything to do with school at all such as: Zoos are very bad for animals, there should be ice cream trucks in York, or college should be less expensive as well as other topics of interest.
In order to write our essays we use three different models: The first one we use for the introductory paragraph is called the funnel model. It has three different layers. In the first layer we are supposed to write an exciting hook to interest our reader. In the second layer we give background information about it. In the last layer we state our thesis, and tell them exactly what we want them to know. The second model, for the body paragraph, is called the hamburger model. This model is usually used three times in our writing pieces.
First, students write a topic sentence which gives a reason to support the argument. Then students give evidence and elaborate to support your reason. The last model for the conclusion paragraph we use is called the upside-down funnel model. We state our thesis again, and then we review a few details about it. The very last piece of writing we have to do for our upside-down funnel is give a ‘strong ending’, or as in persuasive/argumentative writing we call it a ‘call to action.’ Here we have to get the reader to join our side and get them to support our opinion.
We also have a choice for an exceeds to write a ‘counter argument’ paragraph for our essay. In a counter argument one explains how the other side of the discussion may feel, but then they find a way to solve their concerns or problems.
These essays have been very fun and interesting to make as we continue to work on them and hope to persuade our audience, and win our arguments! :D
By Kirra Griffin
Over the past few weeks, our class has been working on planning, drafting and editing our persuasive or argumentative, essays.
Between the two classes of the Lion’s Team, a few of the pieces argue about whether or not 5th and 6th graders should have school dances, be allowed to wear hats in school, and also some other things that don't have anything to do with school at all such as: Zoos are very bad for animals, there should be ice cream trucks in York, or college should be less expensive as well as other topics of interest.
In order to write our essays we use three different models: The first one we use for the introductory paragraph is called the funnel model. It has three different layers. In the first layer we are supposed to write an exciting hook to interest our reader. In the second layer we give background information about it. In the last layer we state our thesis, and tell them exactly what we want them to know. The second model, for the body paragraph, is called the hamburger model. This model is usually used three times in our writing pieces.
First, students write a topic sentence which gives a reason to support the argument. Then students give evidence and elaborate to support your reason. The last model for the conclusion paragraph we use is called the upside-down funnel model. We state our thesis again, and then we review a few details about it. The very last piece of writing we have to do for our upside-down funnel is give a ‘strong ending’, or as in persuasive/argumentative writing we call it a ‘call to action.’ Here we have to get the reader to join our side and get them to support our opinion.
We also have a choice for an exceeds to write a ‘counter argument’ paragraph for our essay. In a counter argument one explains how the other side of the discussion may feel, but then they find a way to solve their concerns or problems.
These essays have been very fun and interesting to make as we continue to work on them and hope to persuade our audience, and win our arguments! :D