CLAIM P/M/I

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Possible claim statements for guided practice:

• Banning cigarettes is best for public health.
• Social media is more harmful than helpful to society.
• It is unethical to eat meat.
• Security cameras are an invasion of privacy.
• Public school officials should be able to drug test athletes.

Possible questions for practice (students create their own claim):

• Is it ethical for companies to target advertising to children?
• Are curfews effective for reducing crime?
• Should schools abolish homework?
• Is animal testing ethically justified?

Because we want students to get to questions that don't generate simplistic claims (the following questions are from the book Uncommon Core):

• When is it justifiable to resist authority?
• What would you be willing to do to get your rights?
• What are the most influential speeches/writing leading to social change?
• What is it about these texts that leads to change?
• What are our civil rights, and how can we best protect and promote them?
• When should/must we stand up against injustice?
• What people most need their civil rights promoted, and how can we work for this?
• What is fair? How can fairness be achieved?
• How can we achieve civil rights against powerful interests and forces?

Copyright 2014 by Corwin. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Uncommon Core: Where the Authors of the Standards Go Wrong About Instruction—and How You Can Get It Right by Michael W. Smith, Deborah Appleman, and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, www.corwin.com.