Argument Essay, Day 11

Objectives:

1. Students will write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
2. Students will introduce claim(s)*, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
3. Students will support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
4. Students will use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
5. Students will establish and maintain a formal style.
6. Students will provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.

Essential Skill: 

1. Students will be able to write an argumentative essay. 

I Can Statements:

• I can identify prepositions and prepositional phrases in a sentence.
• I can establish a strong claim.
• I can use credible sources.
• I can include relevant evidence for and against an argument.
• I can use transitions to clarify relationships.
• I can use a formal style.
• I can use revision and editing strategies to improve my writing.

IPI: Level 6
Bloom's: Level 6

Task List:

1. Students will continue typing their argumentative essays. Note: Essays will be due on Wednesday, March 13, 2013!
2. After typing their argumentative essays students will perform a final check of their paper using the rubric attached on the blog. 
3. Students will also go back through their papers identifying sentences that use appositive, participial, and prepositional phrases by changing the text color as follows: red for appositives, blue for participles, and green for prepositions. Note: Students will be required to have two examples of each in their final papers.

Resources:

• Rubric