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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
Students willKeywords
alien, space, writing, argue, argument, persuade, persuasive, custom, culture
Lesson Plan
Click Alien Report to see the entire lesson on the University of Northern Illinois Lesson Exchange.Assessment
Students earn 1 point for each persuasive argument they make in their essays. A passing score is 4 or better.Lesson Plan Source
University of Northern Illinois Lesson ExchangeNational Standards
LANGUAGE ARTS: English
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