Argument Lessons/Skills
Thinkcerca "Should Junk Food Be Banned in Schools" - lesson on smart file - Hutton
Thinkcerca "Should Junk Food Be Banned in Schools" - lesson on smart file - Hutton
- Identify claim
- Establishes significance of the claim
- Claim lesson on Thinkcerca – have put part in a google presentation
- Establishes significance of the claim
- Identify counterclaim
- Distinguishes claim from this counterclaim
- Summarize pros in a text – supporting claim
- Summarize cons in a text – supporting counterclaim/refuting claim
- Identify evidence in a text
- Highlight, annotate
- Introduces claim
- Focused response
- Organizes evidence, reasons
- Relevant, sufficient, logical
- Embed quotations in a text
- Cite evidence in essay
- Thinkcerca has a lesson – powerpoint with audio – for this. Might be in my full version only. “Citing and Documenting Sources” (Thinkcerca)
- Use words, phrases, clauses to create cohesion
- Use words, phrases, clauses to clarify relationships
- Include a concluding statement
- Follows argument
- Supports arguemtn
- Attend to conventions
- Language use
- Tone
- Audience
- Purpose
- Standard format for citations
Grammar Sites
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/nouns_pronouns_language_arts_seventh_7th_grade.htm
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/nouns_pronouns_language_arts_seventh_7th_grade.htm