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Project Overview
In the Research, Write, Communicate project, your child develops fundamental skills needed to use technology to support research, creativity, and communication. You can help your child research controversial issues and learn how to take positions and make convincing arguments. You can encourage your child to take a greater responsibility in learning and pursuing talents and interests with more confidence and resilience.
Persuasive Writing >
In the first module, your child explores how authors use the persuasive style of writing to make convincing arguments for particular positions on important issues. Your child learns how to appeal to the feelings, beliefs, and thoughts of an audience. You can help your child understand how to use the persuasive style to convince an audience to believe an idea or take an action on controversial issues.
Persuasive Essay >
In the second module, your child first learns how to organize information and outline convincing arguments. Your child then learns how to write introductory paragraphs that get readers interested in an issue, body paragraphs that make convincing arguments, and concluding paragraphs that summarize the arguments. Finally, your child uses peer feedback to make the essay more interesting and convincing.
Web Page >
In the third module, students take their arguments to a global audience by creating Web pages based on their persuasive essays. Your child becomes fully technology literate by learning how to create Web pages using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and a simple text editor. You can help your child understand how computers strictly follow instructions written in languages such as HTML.
Web Site >
In the last module, students develop effective collaboration skills as they work in teams to plan, produce, and publish Web sites that attract larger audiences to their persuasive essays. You can help your child understand that Web sites can provide value for readers because Web sites can offer more information than single Web pages and Web sites are often produced by teams of people who have different talents and interests.
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