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Business Letter Lesson Plan A   Teri Page Unit: Rock Arkansas PBL Lesson Title: Chamber Letter Related Lessons: Five Step Writing Process Content Standard: 3.5.1 Key block style personal/business letter using open/mixed punctuation.

Goals: The learner will compose and key a business letter requesting the Hard Rock Café board of directors meet with their group for a presentation on “why their Arkansas city should have a Hard Rock Café.” The learner will use correct business formatting skills.

Time: Two class periods

Materials: Business Letter Examples Parts of Letter Review []

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Micro Soft Word Edmodo Account Hard Rock Contest Letter

Introduction:
 * 1) Read a letter from the Hard Rock Café asking for ideas on cities and states to open a Hard Rock in.
 * 2) View the website with students. http://www.hardrock.com/
 * 3) Brainstorm with the students how cool it would be to have a Hard Rock in Arkansas.
 * 4) Have students list the bigger cities in Arkansas: example Little Rock, Fayetteville, and West Memphis.
 * 5) Talk with the students about the different regions of Arkansas.
 * 6) Divided Students into their groups.
 * 7) With their group they are to choose a city in Arkansas.

Instructional Activities: Key a letter persuading the board of directors to schedule an interview with their group.
 * 1) Review Business Letters with students.
 * 2) Show an example of a business letter
 * 3) View video with students. media type="youtube" key="xqUT1VOjmw0" width="560" height="315"
 * 4) Review the Formatting and part using the review link.http://www.quia.com/jg/475497.html
 * 5) Give the students their task.
 * 1) Handout the rubric and explain to students how they will be graded.
 * 2) This will be an individual project and as a group they will choose the best letter.

Closing: With their group students will read each letter and chose one letter to represent their group.

Assessment: The teacher will assess each student’s individual letter according to the letter rubric. Group participation will be assessed in the final project.