Book Club Persuasive Essay ELA 7

Book Club Persuasive Essay ELA 7

Name: ______Period: ______

Book Club Persuasive Essay ELA 7

Book Review

Prompt: Now that you have completed reading your Book Club text, you are in a position to review it with a critical eye. Write a well-developed 5-paragraph essay in which you either persuade your audience to read the book or avoid it altogether. Though your review should be based on your opinions, those opinions must be supported by evidence from the book.

  • Make a claim about whether you recommend the book or not, and introduce three reasons that support your claim.
  • Support each of the three reasons for your claim with 2 specific examples from the text (with page numbers).
  • Use complete and coherent sentences, and paragraphing to ensure an organized review.
  • Spelling, grammar, punctuation, and usage all count.

Step1: Determine your claim (whether or not you will recommend the book in the review).

Step 2: Determine the three most persuasive reasons you recommend the book or not.

Step 3: Find evidence to support your reasons for recommending the book or not.

Step 4: Be able to explain how each piece of evidence supports your reason for recommending or not recommending the book.

Step 5:Draft your review into a 5-paragraph essay.

  • Introduction:
  • Make a claim about whether the book is worth reading or not.
  • Introduce three reasons that support your claim without providing detailed evidence.
  • Body Paragraphs (3 total; ClEER)
  • Claim: Reason for recommending the book or not (with an explanation).
  • Evidence: 2 specific examples with page numbers from the book that support your reason.
  • Explain: Explain how each example supports your reason for recommending the book or not.
  • Reasoning/Realization: What does this make you realize about the book and its merits? How can you reason that this is reason enough to read the book (or not)?
  • Conclusion: Recap your overall claim and reasons for it by summarizing what you just wrote.

DUE: ______

TIPS:

  • Use the graphic organizer to complete Steps 1-4.
  • Despite the review including your opinions, you may NOT use first person.
  • (For example, instead of writing “I think the book had too many plot twists that made it difficult to follow” or “In my opinion, the book had too many plot twists that made it difficult to follow,” replace with “The book had too many plot twists that made it difficult to follow.”)
  • Remember that long works are underlined (book titles) and chapter titles are put in quotation marks.
  • This is a MAJOR GRADE, so revise & edit your work before handing in the final draft.

Claim:
Reason #1: (Claim for 1st Body Paragraph) / Evidence: Page #:
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Reason #2: (Claim for 2nd Body Paragraph) / Evidence: Page #:
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Reason #3: (Claim for 3rdBody Paragraph) / Evidence: Page #:
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