What Matters

My Perspectives Grade 8 Unit 3:  What Matters

Writing and Research Goals

• Write an argumentative essay in which you effectively incorporate the key elements of an argument

• Conduct research projects of various lengths to explore a topic and clarify meaning

Performance Task:

• You will write an essay in which you make an argument about a problem you think is worth solving and how to solve it. p.263

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Research to Clarify

Choose at least one unfamiliar detail from the text.  Briefly research that detail.  In what way does the information you learned shed light on an aspect of the article?  p. 269

Research to Explore

Choose something that interested you from the text, and use it to formulate a research question. p. 269

Work with a partner to conduct research on one of the educational nonprofit organizations or programs mentioned in the article. (p. 275)

• Experience Aviation

• Build and Soar Program

• International Space Station

• NASA

"Three Cheers for the Nanny State"

Research to Clarify

Choose at least one unfamiliar detail from the text.  Briefly research that detail.  In what way does the information you learned shed light on an aspect of the text?

Research to Explore

Write a research question that you might use to find out more about the "nanny state."