Jenifer Frye
Reich College of Education
Appalachian State University
Product Persuasion
graders, they will be focusing on descriptive writing as they write a
letter to an advertising company describing what type of product they have created and how they want it advertised.(11.4) The sixth grade
focuses on clarification writing as they pose as the advertisement
company and try to create using technology based tools such as
graphics (11.3) a billboard from the descriptive letters that the fifth
graders have written. After all the billboards were made, we placed
them on a bulletin board, to show their creativity. The teacher uses
The television to show different video clips taken with a digital
camera(11.2) of bill boards around the town, and of interviews with
people on what types of billboards are most appealing to them.(10.2)
We will also watch cable television to view forms of product
advertisement to what is most appealing.(12.6) With this web page, I
developed a list of links to URL's that correlated to the topic of
media literacy, as well as is available to other teachers via the internet. (10.3)