writing persuasively

For the second part of our year, as a school, we will be focusing on Water.  This class has a huge amount of information about Lake Winnipeg and the Lake Winnipeg Foundation.  We are trying to decide which issue is greater - the problems facing Lake Winnipeg, or the work that Free the Children does with Water.  In class we have talked about what we need to create a paper, we have prepared an outline to follow.  The students were to choose an issue that meant more to them and create an outline to follow about that issue.  Today we wrote a couple practice paragraphs.  The introduction and a transition, and the second paragraph.  The students now have to take their own ideas and come up with the first four paragraphs for their piece.  Next week, we will be working further with this.