Kōkiri Learn

Week 1 of 4

Choose an issue and a real audience

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Session 1 · AUTHOR: Audience

Who needs to hear this?

  1. 10 minHook: two short speeches on the same issue. Which moved you, and why?
  2. 20 minList school or community issues. Choose one you care about.
  3. 15 minAudience profile: who reads the newsletter, what do they know, what do they care about?
  4. 5 minWrite your purpose: what should the reader think or do?

Session 2 · AUTHOR: Understand

Reading like a writer

  1. 10 minRead two short persuasive texts on your issue.
  2. 25 minHighlight three techniques each writer uses and what each one does to the reader.
  3. 15 minShare: which technique worked best, and on whom?

Getting started

Use the technique bookmark with examples of each feature.

Stretch

Find a technique that works on one audience but would put another off.

Checkpoint

Each student has an issue, an audience profile and a purpose sentence.

Activities for this week