Day 29 – Arguments and Appositives INSTRUCTOR: KYLE BRITT

Agenda Warm Up 8 Min. Group Practice – Closed reading Groups 20 Min. Guided instruction – Week 5 Guidelines 5 min. Individual Practice – Arguments writing 20 Min. Pair Practice – Appositives 15 Min. Closure 8 Min.

Objectives Understand and Identify Appositives Compose an argument arguments Homework: RP outline due 3/11 Complete Appositive Worksheet Vocabulary exercises due Thursday Close Reading Week 5 due Friday

Warm Up Identify the appositive phrase and draw an arrow to the noun it identifies. During lunch, Max, the rudest guy in the world, threw his olives at me. Mittens, Eric’s sneaky cat, sleuthed through the new house. I bought the bookcase, a modern piece of art.

Close Reading Week 4 groups Get into your groups and discuss your answers and annotations. Compare your answers and rationales. If you do not have a rationale, write the reason why you chose that answer. Put the group responses on your answer sheets. You have 10 Min.

Close Reading Week 4 groups Mark the correct answers and the standards. Make sure you write your strengths and weaknesses at the end. Use your standards sheet to determine what standards you missed and which one you succeeded in.

CR Guidelines Week 5

CR Guidelines Week 5 Cont.

The Argument

Construct an Argument – Writing Response Read and annotate the articles in “Should the Driving Age be Raised?” Claim Support: Reason Support: Evidence Types of Appeals used Pick a side on the issue and construct your own claim given the question; should the driving age be raised? Make sure you include a claim, at least two reasons, and two pieces of evidence.

Appositives are so cool! Here’s the 411 on appositives: They are a noun or pronoun They are placed beside another noun or pronoun to identify or describe it They give us extra information about the noun or pronoun

Here’s a tough one with 3 appositives: Rachel Carson, a biologist and writer, published the book Silent Spring in 1962. Where are the appositives? Yes… biologist, writer, and Silent Spring! Good job!!!!

F.Y.I. **If the appositive is set off by commas, that means we don’t really need it in the sentence to complete the meaning and can be taken out. Example: My mom, Regina, volunteers at the city library. **If the appositive does not have any commas around it, we NEED it in the sentence to complete the meaning. Example: The book Sounder is John’s favorite novel.

Appositive Phrases This is an appositive + its modifiers They work just like appositives do (give extra information, modify nouns or pronouns, etc.) Example: Officer Webb, one of the security guards, caught the burglar. (The adjective phrase of the security guards modifies the appositive ONE and the whole thing is the appositive phrase.)

Now you try Get into your pairs and complete the appositives worksheet. Remember:

Closure 3, 2, 1 Write: 3 items you have learned about arguments. 2 parts of an argument. 1 example of an appositive Put the room back in order and clean up the trash.