AP English III Unit 3

Big Idea:

• Students will be able to use researched sources to develop a position (agree, disagree, or qualify).
• Students will be able to learn to find evidence to fit their chosen position.
• Students will be able to write a commentary which connects evidence to their position.

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

SC9 The course requires students to demonstrate research skills and, in particular, the ability to evaluate, use, and cite primary and secondary sources.

SC13 The AP teacher provides instruction and feedback on students’ writing assignments both before and after the students revise their work that help the students develop a variety of sentence structures.

Ongoing TEKS

SC3 The course requires students to write in informal contexts (e.g., imitation exercises, journal keeping, collaborative writing, and in-class responses) designed to help them become increasingly aware of themselves as writers and/or aware of the techniques employed by the writers they read.

SC7 The course requires nonfiction readings (e.g., essays, journalism, political writing, science writing, nature writing, autobiographies/biographies, diaries, history, criticism) that are selected to give students opportunities to explain an author’s use of rhetorical strategies or techniques. If fiction and poetry are also assigned, their main purpose should be to help students understand how various effects are achieved by writers’ linguistic and rhetorical choices.

SC15 The AP teacher provides instruction and feedback on students’ writing assignments both before and after they revise their work that help the students develop a balance of generalization and specific, illustrative detail.

Learning Targets:

• Develop a position based on the researched documents.
• Use evidence from the researched documents to support chosen position.
• Construct an outline in TSIS format.
• Write an argumentative essay in which the position taken (agree, disagree, qualify) is supported by evidence from both the text and known evidence.
• Formulate explanation of evidence to support your chosen position.

Essential Questions:

• Did you use evidence from at least 3 sources?
• Did you properly concede to the opposing argument using valid evidence?
• Does your third body paragraph properly refute your concession?

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