1. Argument
Pre-AP English 9
Fall 2017

2. Monday, October 30th, 2017
Argument
Journal and intro

3. Journal Take out your journal and your very favorite writing utensil
Think about the following prompt. Write the prompt in your journal.
Journal in response to the prompt!!

4. Journal
Prompt:
What is your favorite thing to do? Why? Be descriptive!!

5. Journal Think/pair/share
In what ways could you make an argument about your favorite thing?

6. Discuss these questions:
You have just completed your interview narrative about a person who attended college.
Discuss these questions:
What did you learn about college / vocational technical school / military service?
What CLAIMS did the interviewee make?
List 3-5 benefits of college / vocational technical school / military service as mentioned by the person you interviewed.

7. Interviewee Claims Have to make choices College helps you mature
Consequences for your actions
College prepares you for a career
College isn’t hard
College helps you make more money
College is expensive
Logistics
College was fun
You get to meet new people
Get to pick classes you enjoy
Unexpected complications
You get to travel
College helps you find yourself

8. 3 Purposes for Argument:
Gain acceptance for the writer’s ideas about a problem or issue
Change reader/listener point of view
Cause reader/listener to take action *

9. 3 Purposes for Argument:
Practice!! Apply this to your own life!!
Talk with your peers – what are some topics you care about, and how could you form an argument about it??

10. Elements of an argument
Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
Elements of an argument

11. Review from Yesterday
There are 3 purposes for argument. What are they??

12. Journal: Elements and Structure of an Argument
Make a bulleted list of what is required when writing an argumentative essay, including the PURPOSE of an argumentative essay

13. Prezi Take notes during this prezi Main ideas: Parts of an argument
Rhetorical triangle (extra video)

14. Visuals
Claim
Counter Claim
Reason
Reason
Reason E E E E E E

15. Visuals Rhetorical Triangle Logos (text) Ethos (speaker)
Pathos (audience)

16. Review Definitions and Concepts
Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
Review Definitions and Concepts

17. Review
Talk with your table group – review the learning from Monday and Tuesday
Look back at your notes

18. Quiz (7 minutes)
Take out a half sheet of paper and write your name on it
Draw this shape on your paper. Label each part – the rectangles, each circle, and each triangle C R E

19. 5 Ways Ed Pays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGHTUbZJFP8
Claim: college education is beneficial
Reason
Support/Evidence
Greater wealth
More security
Better health
Close family
Stronger Community
Which reason is the most persuasive and which reason is the least persuasive? Why?

20. Whole book or part of it?
Do you have a binder?? Want to tear out the pages we’re going to use, instead of grabbing and carrying around the whole textbook??
Tear out pages 63 to 92 and put them into your binder 

21. “Education Still Pays”
SpringBoard page 66
Whole class
Learning Targets
Preview
Setting a Purpose for Reading
Individual
Read the informational text & chart
Partners
Complete the four questions on p. 67

22. Practice Analyzing an Argument
Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
Practice Analyzing an Argument

23. “America’s Schoolchildren”
Whole class
Preview
Setting a purpose
Reminder about L,E,P,C
Individual
Read the text
As you read, mark it for L,E,P
Partners
Complete the questions (#1-8) at the end of the text
Thoroughly respond to the questions. Use evidence from the text to support your answers.

24. Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
Finish Soapstone Chart C/R/S for the Speech Targeting Your Audience Types of Evidence

25. Targeting Your Audience
Materials:
Your journal
Annotating tools
Learning Targets:
Identify different types of evidence and their purposes
Understand the connection between types of evidence and target audience

26. Targeting Your Audience
Journal
When you are writing to a friend (text message, note, etc.), how do you decide what type of language to use?
When you are writing to your teacher ( , etc.) in what ways would you change your language?

27. Targeting Your Audience
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Targeting Your Audience
Materials:
Journal
Springboard book
Good writing utensils

28. Rip It Out
Want to have all the materials from this unit in one place? Tear out Springboard pages and put in your binder or staple together and put into a folder.

29. Targeting Your Audience
Write this in your journal!!!
Connecting with an audience
To make an argument compelling, writers and speakers use a variety of reasons and evidence they think will convince their audience to agree with them.
Knowing the audience helps the writer or speaker decide what reasons and evidence to use.

30. Targeting Your Audience
Evidence & Audience
RI.9.5
Analyze in detail how an author's ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).

31. Read 2 more views on college
Monday, November 13th, 2017 & Tuesday, November 14th
Read 2 more views on college

32. Preview the Embedded Assessment
Wednesday, November 15th, 2017
Preview the Embedded Assessment
Pass back papers…
Activity 1.17 (pages 83-90) was due yesterday. Turn it in!!!

33. Journal
Open your journal to a new page and write the heading “my thoughts on the value of a college education”
Free-write anything and everything that comes to mind about the value of a college education
You may organize this into a pro/con t-chart
You may also do bullet points, pictures, sentences… anything that helps you!

34. Journal
Now, go back through and identify the one or two “pro” that matters most to you, and the one or two “con” that also matters most to you. Mark these.
Partner/whole class share

35. Parts of an Argument Structure Content Intro (hook, thesis)
Body paragraphs (think “hamburger”)
Conclusion (restate thesis, universal connection)
Content
Claim
Reasons
Evidence
Concessions & Refutations
Call to action / conclusion
Read over page in your Springboard book!

36. Writing an Argument Essay: Pre-write and Outline
Thursday, November 16th, 2017 & Friday, November 17th, 2017
Writing an Argument Essay: Pre-write and Outline

37. Writing your Argument
Decide what your central claim will be. This is the most critical part of your essay!
Use a pre-writing strategy to decide on ideas
Claim + reasons
Counterclaim + reasons
Go through your sources and mark the evidence you want to use to support your reasons (which explain your claim)
Outline your essay. What will go where? Make a template and fill it in!

38. Take out ALL of your argument essay materials!!
Monday, November 20th, 2017 – Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017
Writing an Argument Essay Due: Wednesday, November 29th, at start of class
Take out ALL of your argument essay materials!!

39. MLA Citation Lesson Essay Due: Wednesday at start of class
Monday, November 27th, 2017
MLA Citation Lesson Essay Due: Wednesday at start of class
Take out ALL of your argument essay materials!!

40. Writing an Argument Essay Due: Tomorrow at start of class
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017
Writing an Argument Essay Due: Tomorrow at start of class
Take out ALL of your argument essay materials!!

41. Self-Reflection
Go through this list and answer “yes” or “no” for each part.
Have I written my central claim as one sentence?
Have I identified 2-4 reasons to support my claim?
Have I identified a counterclaim that I can logically and effectively refute?
Have I identified evidence that goes along with each of my reasons?
Is this evidence a variety of types and from a variety of sources?
The parts you answered “no” to is where you should start today!

42. Take out ALL of your argument essay materials!!
Wednesday, November 29th, 2017
Turn in your essay
Take out ALL of your argument essay materials!!

43. Reflection. Take out a piece of notebook paper
Reflection! Take out a piece of notebook paper. Respond to these three prompts
Think back to your essay writing process. Which step was the most challenging? Which step was the most helpful?
What part of your essay are you most confident about? Why? What part of your essay are you least confident about? Why?
What is one thing you wish you could “do over” for this essay? OR, what is one thing you want to make sure to do again for future essay writing?

44. Turn in your essay! Organize your work into a packet in this order:
Top
Rubric
Final draft
Pre-write / outline
Reflection
Bottom