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Personal Persuasion
You can apply the principles of editorial argumentation
to personal persuasion.
Give students different roles to play in one of the scenarios. Have class
members record the arguments used. You may give two groups the same situation.
Ask the class to discuss who used the most persuasive argument? Did arguments
follow the least-to-most important order?
- Persuade your parents you should be allowed to go
with friends to a concert.
- Persuade your father you should be allowed to drive
the family car. You recently put a dent in the front fender or got a
traffic violation ticket for driving five miles over the speed limit.
- Persuade your sister to allow you to wear her favorite
outfit.
- Persuade the six-year-old boy you are babysitting
to eat a healthy dinner.
- Persuade your boyfriend to quit smoking.
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