Get Out Your Pens, People! Year 7 & 8

Get Out Your Pens, People! Year 7 & 8

Lesson 1 of 20 in this unit

  • Secondary
  • Year 7 - 8
  • English
  • Creative writing
  • Learning through literature
  • Science
  • Environmental
  • Sustainability
  • Social
  • Social Action
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Lesson summary

Students brainstorm energy issues then use the ‘Ranking Ladder’ thinking tool to assist in organising their ideas. Students are asked to create a persuasive letter to a politician using deliberate language techniques.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • apply their prior knowledge about energy issues to a letter writing activity
  • value the knowledge they already have and enable teachers to find out what their students know and what their misconceptions might be. 

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Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 7 English:

  • Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725)

Year 7 Science:

  • Some of Earth’s resources are renewable, but others are non-renewable (ACSSU116)
  • Science and technology contribute to finding solutions to a range of contemporary issues; these solutions may impact on other areas of society and involve ethical considerations (ACSHE120)

Year 8 English:

  • Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that raise issues, report events and advance opinions, using deliberate language and textual choices, and including digital elements as appropriate (ACELY1736)

Year 8 Science:

  • Science and technology contribute to finding solutions to a range of contemporary issues; these solutions may impact on other areas of society and involve ethical considerations (ACSHE135)
  • Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that raise issues, report events and advance opinions, using deliberate language and textual choices, and including digital elements as appropriate (ACELY1736)

Syllabus OutcomesSC4-11PW, SC4-12ESEN4-4B

General capabilitiesLiteracy, critical and creative thinking.

Indoor or outdoor activity: Indoor

Time required: 45 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Assist students in letter writing.

Resources required

  • Letter writing materials
  • Digital worksheet

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