Grade Level: Second Grade

Subject: Persuasive Writing

Submitted by: Leslie Sniff

EDUC 651

February 27, 2008

Persuasive Letter

Performance Task

Goal-Your task is to persuade your parents to take you to Disney World/Epcot Center for spring break instead of spending the week at Uncle Emmet’s worm farm.

Role-You are the author of the letter you will write to convince your parents that a week in Disney World/Epcot Center is more educational than a week at the worm farm. In order to convince them, you will need to become an expert on the educational offerings of Disney World/Epcot Center.

Audience-Your audience is your skeptical parents. You will be writing to convince your parents that Disney World/Epcot Center will be better for you educationally than a week at Uncle Emmet’s worm farm.

Situation-Your parents have decided that you should spend spring break at Uncle Emmet’s worm farm because it will be educational.

Product-You will write a letter to convince your parents that your plan is better than their plan. Your letter will be written as a friendly letter consisting of greeting, body, and closing. The body of your letter will contain three to five factual reasons why Disney World/Epcot Center is a better choice than Uncle Emmet’s worm farm.

Standard-Your letter will be written in the standard form of a friendly letter and should contain all the elements of a friendly letter. In addition, your letter should contain a minimum of three factual reasons why Disney World/Epcot Center is more educational than the worm farm. The ideas, content accuracy, conventions, sentences and paragraphs, capitalization and punctuation, and format of your letter will be graded according to the attached rubric.

Corley Elementary Persuasive Writing

Name: ________________________

Teacher: Ms. Sniff

Criteria

Pts.

	4	3	2	1
Position Statement	Position is clearly stated and consistently maintained. Clear references to the issue(s) are stated.	Position is clearly stated and consistently maintained. References to the issue(s) at hand are missing.	Position is stated, but is not maintained consistently throughout work.	Statement of position cannot be determined.	____
Supporting Information	Evidence clearly supports the position; evidence is sufficient.	Evidence clearly supports the position; but there is not enough evidence.	Argument is supported by limited evidence.	Evidence is unrelated to argument.	____
Organization	Structure of work is clearly developed.	Structure developed reasonably well, but lacks clarity.	Some attempt to structure the argument has been made, but the structure is poorly developed.	There is a total lack of structure.	____
Tone Of Letter	Tone is consistent and enhances persuasiveness.	Tone enhances persuasiveness, but there are inconsistencies.	Tones does not contribute to persuasiveness.	Tone is inappropriate to purpose.	____
Sentence Structure	Sentence structure is correct.	Sentence structure is generally correct. Some awkward sentences do appear.	Work contains structural weaknesses and grammatical errors.	Work pays little attention to proper sentence structure.
Punctuation & Capitalization	Punctuation and capitalization are correct.	There is one error in punctuation and/or capitalization.	There are two or three errors in punctuation and/or capitalization.	There are four or more errors in punctuation and/or capitalization.
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