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How to teach VCE English students to analyse argument, present effective arguments and the best recent issues in the media to use – Northcote session
February 28, 2019 @ 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
$250This professional development will give teachers resources for a range of issues that have been in the Australian media since September 2018 and could be studied for either Unit 1&2 English or Unit 3&4 English. Teachers will be given strategies and ideas for:
- Supporting students to understand the scope and significance of the issue
- Supporting students to understand the context of a publication in which an opinion piece was published and its audience
- Supporting students to understand how arguments and visuals have been selected, sequenced and conveyed with persuasive language in order to appeal to a specific audience
- Supporting students to write analyses of argument
- Supporting students to write their own persuasive pieces