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Warm-up:  Write a speech that you could deliver in 30 seconds or less that would persuade your classmates that you should be the one student that I award extra credit points on the Thank You for Arguing quiz.  Think about what strategies you learned from the book that could help.  (The winner really will get bonus points)

Classwork:  Speech contest, use of TYFA strategies, work on homework and audiences

Homework:  Thank You for Arguing homework assignment (example under classroom documents and on Edmodo)

Step 1:  Choose a desire that you have that is dependent upon the cooperation of someone else and write an explanation of what you want & what you need to persuade that person to do/say/think/feel to make your dream a reality. (Ex:  You want to borrow something, you want a later curfew, you want less homework/chores)

Step 2:  Identify 2 different audiences (can be just 1 person or a group) that you would potentially have to persuade.  The audiences should be as different as possible.  Ex:  One familiar/one formal… similar age/ older.

Step 3:  For each audience write 5 sentences or statements that you would say to persuade that audience to give you what you want.  For each of those 10 statements (5 per audience), explain why that statement is persuasive, what rhetorical strategy you are using, or why you had to say that.  You can use terms from TYfA or just explain it in your own words.