1. Climate Change
Greenpeace UK webpage

2. Objectives
• To annotate the text for key features of
persuasion and of a web page
• To practise analytical writing skills by creating
group PEE responses
• To practise creative writing skills by using the
article as stimulus for a persuasive letter

3. Starter
•Quickwrite as many persuasive
devices as you can in 2 minutes.
These can be at word, sentence and
whole text level.

4. Who is the audience and
what is the purpose?
•In table groups answer the above
questions and be ready to share
with the class (3 mins discussion
before feeding back)

5. Group annotation
• Change table groups and now use different
coloured pens to identify informational
features and persuasive features.
• Use different colours for each (black pen for
persuasive devices/ blue pen for informative)
• Spend 5-7 minutes on your text then rotate to
other tables, 2 moretimes and then return to
you ‘home table’

6. Individual annotation
•Back at your home table, copy down
the annotations (colour code
please)

7. PEE analytical response
•What devices does the writer utilise
to persuade us to take action?
•Use the above topic ( imagine it is
the exam questions) to write your
first paragraph in response on your
computers.
•You have 7 minutes

8. Rotateto a new response
• When your time is up, rotate yourself
clockwise to your partner’s response.
• When you have the new response in front of
you read it and finish it off quickly if it needs it!
• Now EITHER, rewrite if you think it could do
with redrafting, OR continue on to the next
paragraph … continuing the response on.
• You have 7 minutes

9. Next rotation
• Continue to rotate the piece until your
teacher tells you to stop (or when you
have seen 3 new responses).
• You cannot redraft a paragraph if it has
already been redrafted once- you must
move to write a new PEE paragraph.

10. What makes this a
webpage?
•Brief class discussion on what
makes this a webpage and its key
features
•Students to annotate these features
onto their text
•This task should take 10 minutes
only

11. Creative response
• Write a letter to your school principal
trying to persuade him to create a more
environmentally friendly school.
• Write for at least 20 minutes (the time you will
have in the exam)
• Swap with a partner who will check for use of
imagery and punctuation and provide a comment,
then continue redrafting until end of lesson