1. WRITING TO PERSUADE
Assessment

2. EXAMPLE QUESTION
Your school or college is inviting entries for a writing competition.
The topic is “School trips are a waste of time and money.”
Write your entry explaining your point of view and persuading readers.
Your school is inviting entries for a writing competition.
Audience
Purpose
Genre

3. Read the example response and highlight the following features:
EXAMPLE QUESTION
Read the example response and highlight the following features:
Rhetorical questions
Where have they been placed?
What effect does this placement have?
Triples
Alliteration
Opinion disguised as fact
Undermining the opposite view
Exaggeration (Hyperbole)
Personal pronouns/direct address
Using the Q5 mark scheme, award this piece of writing a mark out of 40.

4. It makes students proud
It weakens students’ creativity
It makes students equal
It is restrictive
It provides a sense of belonging

5. ARE SCHOOL UNIFORMS GOOD OR BAD?
BENEFITS
DRAWBACKS

6. SCHOOL UNIFORMS 45 minutes – 40 marks
Canons High School are reviewing their school uniform policy and have asked to hear students’ views.
Write a letter to Mr. Bartle in response, persuading him to either keep school uniform or have it abolished.
5 minutes to look over notes
Rhetorical devices & AFOREST
Trump/Rogers
GCSEPod notes
45 minutes – 40 marks

7. Plan topics by paragraph
45 MINUTES – 40 MARKS
5 minutes
20 minutes
20 minutes
Plan topics by paragraph
Introduction
First Paragraph
Second Paragraph
Second paragraph
Third Paragraph
Conclusion