Writers Workshop, Grade 3, Unit 3, Changing the World, Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials, Unit Lesson Plans

   This lesson plan bundle guides you through bends I to IV and all sessions 1- 23 of Unit 3, Changing the World, Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials, 2013 edition. The lesson plans outline all components of the Mini-lessons included in the unit: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, a 30 day monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, and recommended Mentor Texts.

     This unit is designed to help students learn to state clear opinions and to support these ideas with evidence.  Students learn to introduce topics, support these by listing reasons, using transition words to connect the various parts of their opinion writing and to conclude. This unit moves writers from writing opinion speeches to forming cause groups to support various causes. Across the unit, there is a focus on considering audience and considering word choice in light of audience.