Each partner will choose one of the following roles. After each partner completes his or her role, both partners will combine to finish up the web quest together, steps 3-8 in process.
The digger will choose the sites to visit and will print off activities to do which will be useful in perfecting how to write using figurative and persuasive language.
The digger will also weed out the unneeded links.
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/home/hand/common.htm Common Advertising Strategies
http://www.thematzats.com/propaganda/ A web quest on propaganda
http://www.quia.com/jq/16219.html Propaganda quiz
http://www.adcritic.com/ Commercial ads
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/home/hand/ptpkit12.htm Advertising Watching for "Weasel Words"
http://www.autotrader.com/ Auto Trader (look at used car ads)
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/ Ad*Access site (collection of old ads)
http://www.stark.k12.oh.us/units/1996/buyer.pl/buyer.pl.a3.html Definitions of various advertising techniques
http://smac.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/http_webster Webster's online Dictionary
http://www.superwriter.com/persuasi.htm Link to Persuasive Writing
http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Sciacademy/riggins/persuade/sld001.htm Persuasive Writing Power Point
http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/popquiz2.htm Fact or Fiction Quiz
http://www.class.ewu.edu/class/COMP/201ethos.htm Persuasive Appeals
http://advertising.about.com/?once=true&pid=2770&cob=home Advertising Laws and Ethics Page
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/grammar.html Hyper-Grammar
http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/handouts/logic.html Persuasive and Logical Writing Techniques
http://www.write101.com/ All about writing
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/pers.html Persuasive Essays & Prompts
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/wrtstr4.htm Tips on Writing Persuasive Essays
http://www.edhelper.com/ Great site for language arts

1. The recorder will write down which sites you examined and what activities you did.
2. The recorder will also write down notes about each of the sites you visited so that it may be used
later for the end paper.
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