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Argument

Explore the benefits of college education and the choices it offers, through interviews and argumentative writing exercises.

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Argument

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  1. Argument Pre-AP English 9 Fall 2017

  2. Monday, October 30th, 2017 Argument Journal and intro

  3. Journal • Take out your journal and your very favorite writing utensil • Think about the following prompt. Write the prompt in your journal. • Journal in response to the prompt!!

  4. Journal Prompt: What is your favorite thing to do? Why? Be descriptive!!

  5. Journal Think/pair/share In what ways could you make an argument about your favorite thing?

  6. You have just completed your interview narrative about a person who attended college. • Discuss these questions: • What did you learn about college / vocational technical school / military service? • What CLAIMS did the interviewee make? • List 3-5 benefits of college / vocational technical school / military service as mentioned by the person you interviewed.

  7. Interviewee Claims • Have to make choices • Consequences for your actions • College isn’t hard • College is expensive • College was fun • Get to pick classes you enjoy • You get to travel • College helps you find yourself • College helps you mature • College prepares you for a career • College helps you make more money • Logistics • You get to meet new people • Unexpected complications

  8. 3 Purposes for Argument: • Gain acceptance for the writer’s ideas about a problem or issue • Change reader/listener point of view • Cause reader/listener to take action * *

  9. 3 Purposes for Argument: • Practice!! Apply this to your own life!! • Talk with your peers – what are some topics you care about, and how could you form an argument about it??

  10. Tuesday, October 31st, 2017 Elements of an argument

  11. Review from Yesterday • There are 3 purposes for argument. What are they??

  12. Journal: Elements and Structure of an Argument • Make a bulleted list of what is required when writing an argumentative essay, including the PURPOSE of an argumentative essay

  13. Prezi • Take notes during this prezi • Main ideas: • Parts of an argument • Rhetorical triangle (extra video)

  14. Visuals Claim Counter Claim Reason Reason Reason E E E E E E

  15. Visuals Logos (text) Rhetorical Triangle Ethos (speaker) Pathos (audience)

  16. Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 Review Definitions and Concepts

  17. Review • Talk with your table group – review the learning from Monday and Tuesday • Look back at your notes

  18. Quiz (7 minutes) • Take out a half sheet of paper and write your name on it • Draw this shape on your paper. Label each part – the rectangles, each circle, and each triangle C R E

  19. 5 Ways Ed Pays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGHTUbZJFP8 Claim: college education is beneficial Which reason is the most persuasive and which reason is the least persuasive? Why?

  20. Whole book or part of it? • Do you have a binder?? Want to tear out the pages we’re going to use, instead of grabbing and carrying around the whole textbook?? • Tear out pages 63 to 92 and put them into your binder 

  21. “Education Still Pays” • SpringBoard page 66 • Whole class • Learning Targets • Preview • Setting a Purpose for Reading • Individual • Read the informational text & chart • Partners • Complete the four questions on p. 67

  22. Thursday, November 2nd, 2017 Practice Analyzing an Argument

  23. “America’s Schoolchildren” • Whole class • Preview • Setting a purpose • Reminder about L,E,P,C • Individual • Read the text • As you read, mark it for L,E,P • Partners • Complete the questions (#1-8) at the end of the text • Thoroughly respond to the questions. Use evidence from the text to support your answers.

  24. Tuesday, November 7th, 2017 Finish Soapstone ChartC/R/S for the SpeechTargeting Your AudienceTypes of Evidence

  25. Targeting Your Audience • Materials: • Your journal • Annotating tools • Learning Targets: • Identify different types of evidence and their purposes • Understand the connection between types of evidence and target audience

  26. Targeting Your Audience • Journal • When you are writing to a friend (text message, note, etc.), how do you decide what type of language to use? • When you are writing to your teacher (email, etc.) in what ways would you change your language?

  27. Wednesday, November 8th, 2017 • Materials: • Journal • Springboard book • Good writing utensils Targeting Your Audience

  28. Rip It Out • Want to have all the materials from this unit in one place? Tear out Springboard pages 63-92 and put in your binder or staple together and put into a folder.

  29. Targeting Your Audience • Write this in your journal!!! • Connecting with an audience • To make an argument compelling, writers and speakers use a variety of reasons and evidence they think will convince their audience to agree with them. • Knowing the audience helps the writer or speaker decide what reasons and evidence to use.

  30. Targeting Your Audience • Evidence & Audience • RI.9.5 • Analyze in detail how an author's ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).

  31. Monday, November 13th, 2017 & Tuesday, November 14th Read 2 more views on college

  32. Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 Preview the Embedded Assessment Pass back papers… Activity 1.17 (pages 83-90) was due yesterday. Turn it in!!!

  33. Journal • Open your journal to a new page and write the heading “my thoughts on the value of a college education” • Free-write anything and everything that comes to mind about the value of a college education • You may organize this into a pro/con t-chart • You may also do bullet points, pictures, sentences… anything that helps you!

  34. Journal • Now, go back through and identify the one or two “pro” that matters most to you, and the one or two “con” that also matters most to you. Mark these. • Partner/whole class share

  35. Parts of an Argument • Structure • Intro (hook, thesis) • Body paragraphs (think “hamburger”) • Conclusion (restate thesis, universal connection) • Content • Claim • Reasons • Evidence • Concessions & Refutations • Call to action / conclusion Read over page 91-92 in your Springboard book!

  36. Thursday, November 16th, 2017 & Friday, November 17th, 2017 Writing an Argument Essay: Pre-write and Outline

  37. Writing your Argument • Decide what your central claim will be. This is the most critical part of your essay! • Use a pre-writing strategy to decide on ideas • Claim + reasons • Counterclaim + reasons • Go through your sources and mark the evidence you want to use to support your reasons (which explain your claim) • Outline your essay. What will go where? Make a template and fill it in!

  38. Monday, November 20th, 2017 – Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017 Writing an Argument EssayDue: Wednesday, November 29th, at start of class Take out ALL of your argument essay materials!!

  39. Monday, November 27th, 2017 MLA Citation LessonEssay Due: Wednesday at start of class Take out ALL of your argument essay materials!!

  40. Tuesday, November 28th, 2017 Writing an Argument EssayDue: Tomorrow at start of class Take out ALL of your argument essay materials!!

  41. Self-Reflection • Go through this list and answer “yes” or “no” for each part. • Have I written my central claim as one sentence? • Have I identified 2-4 reasons to support my claim? • Have I identified a counterclaim that I can logically and effectively refute? • Have I identified evidence that goes along with each of my reasons? • Is this evidence a variety of types and from a variety of sources? • The parts you answered “no” to is where you should start today!

  42. Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 Turn in your essay Take out ALL of your argument essay materials!!

  43. Reflection! Take out a piece of notebook paper. Respond to these three prompts Think back to your essay writing process. Which step was the most challenging? Which step was the most helpful? What part of your essay are you most confident about? Why? What part of your essay are you least confident about? Why? What is one thing you wish you could “do over” for this essay? OR, what is one thing you want to make sure to do again for future essay writing?

  44. Turn in your essay! • Organize your work into a packet in this order: • Top • Rubric • Final draft • Pre-write / outline • Reflection • Bottom

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