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Join our Facebook Page, Follow us on Twitter , or read the latest Newsletter Visit the TeacherWeb® videos to learn about the features, modifications, and customizations available on your website. Click here to learn more. Writer's Corner small medium large We have been studying the art of persuasive writing. Here are some of our attempts at persuasion: Once a couple of years ago, my sister and I wanted a dog (we got it at the beginning of the school year this year). It took two years! First we tried the begging approach. It went like this: “Mom, can we please please please please get a dog?” The answer was no. After that didn’t work, we tried the reasoning approach. This is how it went. “We’ll walk it, we’ll fill its food and water bowls, and we’ll take a lot of care of it.” That thankfully worked, but she said “When you’re ten,” to my sister. --Hannah I will tell you a story of when I tried to persuade my parents. My brother and I wanted a dog so badly. We had to give my parents reasons why and what we were going to do if we got one. So I said we would feed it, walk it day and night, give it a bath, take it out to go to the bathroom, and also clean up after it. So then one day my brother, my dad, and my brother’s friend Zack went to go get a dog from a farm. When they brought it home, it was a little puppy—brown and white. My brother named it Cocoa because she looked like it. A couple months later, we did what we were supposed to do. We washed it, took it for walks, played with it, and took it out to the bathroom. Now my dog is one and a half years old. She still is very cute and just the way she was when we got her. My mom does all the work now because we got tired. --Dalya Once I was at my brother’s soccer game. I was so hungry after the game, and so was Yonah. First I begged my mom to let us go to Zeke’s. She said no. On the car ride back, we said we would both put a dollar in the total price. Then I tried the lying approach. I said that Yonah played so hard and I was working hard on the sideline too. She finally said yes, but only if I stopped asking her. When we got home, I called Nicky because he took me out the day before that. When we were done with our meals, Nicky got a dessert because it was his birthday. Also, you know what’s really funny? Me and Yonah didn’t put a dollar in. Ha ha ha. --Uriel One time at school one or two years ago, I was at reading. We were persuading our parents to do something and I chose a pet. The choices were hamster, dog, or fish. And my reading teacher sent it home to my house. My sister and I went to bed at night. Then when it was morning they woke us up. It was a weekend. So they surprised us and bought fish. I got to pick mine first because I wrote it. My sister wanted a pool—it did not work. In Florida, Jen and I also persuaded our parents to get water frogs. We persuaded our parents for all our pets. Only I did the fish part. But it wasn’t that hard persuading for the fish or frogs. --Stephanie One day I wanted a Wii. I think I got it in 2006. This is how those days went. It was a rainy spring day. I was so bored until I had an idea. I asked my mom if we could get a Wii. She was laughing and said “Did you get that out of nowhere?” I did. I had to say a lot to persuade her and my dad. Back then they were hard to persuade, but they get easier. I had to say that I would share it with my little sister, turn it off when I was done, that I would pay for most of the games, and a lot more. I would list them, but I can’t remember four years back. I had to say one of those each day because I wanted it to be special and my parents would think that I worked hard for it. --Matthew Once I persuaded my Granddad to get gummy worms. I used the begging approach. I said, “Please, I won’t get hyper.” He said no, so then I did the puppy dog eyes approach. He still said no. Then I rolled my eyes in the back of my head and he said, “Okay, but don’t do that again; it creeps me out.” Then I bought a pack of gummy worms. And that’s how I persuaded my grandpa. --Tony I first used the reasoning approach, then the begging, for a hamster. Then I made a contract, but my dad was smart enough to rad it! Then he wrote on it some weird stuff about vegetables and me eating them, but if I did, I would get a hamster. So I did it and I knew no hamster. Two years of begging and reasoning. The third year, she finally said yes. (YES!) I wanted a panda bear hamster. My mom liked them, but she didn’t want to clean the cage. By just saying “I’ll clean my room for a month, “ they said yes to a hamster. I don’t clean my room at all anyway. After a long time, on December 4, 2009 I came home from dance and on the kitchen table was a cage. In that cage on a wheel was a hamster, a panda bear hamster! I named him Elmo. Jamie calls him Bernard. I like Elmo better. My mom cleans the cage. --Julia It was a bright windy day in November (2009). We were walking to the grocery store from our car. There was the snow cone cart again. Holus bolus, I was hungry and wanted a snow cone. We were closer to the cart—this was my chance. I asked my parents “Can I have a snow cone?” They answered no. “PLEASE, please, please?” They said no. “I would pay you back,” I said. They said N-O, NO. Now we were inside the grocery shop. I didn’t have a chance any more. I was good at acting so first I started whining, then I cried! After a minute or so my sister and were walking toward the snow cone cart with a big grin on our faces. Then my grin disappeared. They were already leaving (the people who worked with the snow cones). Then I ran to my parents. I told them what happened. Then I started crying again. So my parents ended up giving me this bread filled up with peanut butter. --Jessie One time I tried to persuade my dad to get me a cat. I said “I will feed it and clean her litter box,” but my dad gave me a certain look and in my head I thought “This is it, I am not getting a cat.” After I got ready for school, my mom told me that dad was thinking about getting a cat and I started jumping all around the house and then I stopped. The next morning when I woke up, there was a cat sitting on my night stand! I got so scared I fell out of bed and up till this day I don’t clean her litter box and if I did I would wear a gas mask or something like that. --Max Automatically clean input to optimize for the web. Or, would you like to view and optionally restore one of these previous versions? Password: Forgot your password?

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