Having students write an argumentative essay about something they are passionate about.
We do the Clarke Essay; it allows us to talk about essay structure.
"What makes Clarke great; what could make it even better."
Scrambled paragraphs
claim
difference between argumentative and information
begin widely -- speeches, reasoning, helmets,
soundness of reasoning -- analysis or
-- emotional
--
extension into logical
-- identifying a thesis -- not always at the end of a first paragraph
-- thesis: anchor of the arguments
-- claims and evidence -- from an insurance point of view
-- use a simple article as a cheat sheet for terms
-- delineate, distinguish,
-- for final assessment -- read both argumentative and informational texts, evaluate the articles,
-- keep it authentic, their activity,
-- generate a paragraph where they talk about claims, evidence, and thesis
-- under two pages
-- kids move from identifying (learning topic #1) to evaluating (learning topic #2)
-- argument from a painting, a poem,