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Subjects

• Arts & Humanities
  Language Arts

Grades

• K-2
• 3-5
• 6-8
• 9-12

Brief Description

Students write a persuasive essay to persuade their superiors on a faraway planet to adopt a custom, a behavior, or an item (for example, baseball, shopping, or a vacuum cleaner) they observed on a visit to Earth.

Objectives

• select a custom, a behavior, or an item to write about;
• consider all the reasons an alien culture might want to adopt this Earthly custom, behavior, or item;
• write a persuasive argument for adopting the Earthly custom, behavior, or item;
• include five strong reasons in their arguments.

Keywords

alien, space, writing, argue, argument, persuade, persuasive, custom, culture

Materials Needed

• writing materials

Lesson Plan

Assessment

Lesson Plan Source

National Standards

LANGUAGE ARTS: English

• GRADES K - 12
  NL-ENG.K-12.4 Communication Skills
  NL-ENG.K-12.5 Communication Strategies
  NL-ENG.K-12.9 Multicultural Understanding
  NL-ENG.K-12.12 Applying Language Skills

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