1. What do you need? Planning sheet – classwork section of binder
Sample essay from yesterday - classwork section of binder
Text set in Performance Assessment workbook

2. Do People who take risks have a right to rescue services?

3. You will be able to:
read a text set to develop a claim supported by text from multiple sources, cite evidence, and elaborate to illustrate in depth understanding of the texts

4. Step one Read the text sets
Highlight evidence for yes, people who take risks deserve access to rescue service one color
Highlight evidence for no, people who take risks do not deserve access to rescue service another color

5. Now make a Key on page 22 Yes = No =
Time to begin reading and highlighting evidence for both sides of the argument.
When you are done, review the highlighting. Does one side have more evidence?
Time to begin planning!

6. Step two – time to plan Make a claim Develop TWO Reasons
Evaluate the best evidence to support the reasons
Write the counter claim. Find evidence to prove the other side wrong

7. Keep the scoring rubric in mind
PFO – must be argumentative and be organized (passing 4/3)
EE – pull strong evidence and EXPLAIN (passing 4/3)
Conventions – few errors; no patterns of errors (passing 1/2

8. Step Three – Time to Draft
Review your planning sheet to choose the reason with the strongest evidence.
Write one body paragraph and the counterclaim paragraph