Writing Your Persuasive Letter

Before your begin to write your persuasive letter, make sure you have a solid outline to guide you. That means you should have a clear claim, at least two subclaims, evidence to support your claim/subclaims and an opposing view/counterargument. 

Once you are ready to begin composing your letter, the resources below will provide some additional guidance. You should compose your letter in Google Drive and name the new document Period_LastName_PersuasiveLetter (ex. 1_Davenport_PersuasiveLetter).

Models:
*Note: The models below offer several different structures and organizations. Not all of them satisfy ALL of the criteria that you are responsible for in your letter. Be sure to refer to the assignment prompt and rubric.

• Trash on campus
• Annotated Teacher Retention
• Letter to Employer
• Letter to City Council
• Support the Troops
• PE/Extra Curricular Sports
• Big brothers big sisters

Sentence Frames:

• Persuasive sentence frames 1
• Persuasive sentence frames 2
• Persuasive sentence frames 3

Outlines:

• Style A
• Style B