The students will be taught how to write a persuasive paragraph.  All of the teaching material will be scaffolded, so the learning will be broken down into chunks.  A graphic organizer will be utilized to incorporate each component.  First, the students will learn the definition of persuade.  Next, we will choose a topic.  The example that I will model will be, "Everyone should have a pet."  As a class, we will brainstorm ideas to support the topic.  Those ideas will be used to create a topic...