LESSONS # 6-7 WRITING FOR A SPECIFIC AUDIENCE (Travel Posters) Time: 2 x 45-50 minutes |
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Instructional Objectives: - Students will learn techniques for writing for a specific audience - Students will become familiar with bias as it appears in advertising Behavioural Objectives: - Students will be able to create a travel poster designed to encourage a target audience to visit Yugoslavia. Curriculum Outcomes: # 1-5, 8-10 Introduction: - introduce concept of writing for a specific audience and direct students to some writing guidelines - make sure students read this site and are able to offer examples of different audiences and instances when one might need to write for a specific audience Learning Activity Procedure: - students are to create an effective travel poster that would encourage a specific audience to visit Yugoslavia - students may pick their audience, but must be prepared to justify, orally to the class, how their poster "speaks" to that audience - students should follow these guidelines when designing their poster - students will be given 2 days to complete their posters and will be required to present them to the class the following day - students will have access to the following websites to help them with their projects Conclusion: - summarize project and remind students that they are to present their projects the following day Evaluation: - circulation during individual work (are students on task?) - projects (see rubric) Differentiation Possibilities: - have gifted students firm up the web site for the class as well as their own individual stories. Very advanced students might want to prepare the page to be published on the Internet. - have modified students substitute the poster assignment with a list of nifty trivia facts about Yugoslavia (15 to 20 facts). Students could work in pairs to complete this task. Students would not be required to present their findings, but could if they wanted. |
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