Friday, September 29, 2017

Wednesday/Thursday, October 4/5, 2017



Announcements and Reminders for Wednesday/Thursday, October 4/5, 2017 :
                         
 Ms. Dorsey will be gone on October 4 to a special training for character education.  Be especially well-behaved for our substitute teacher -- Mrs. Magleby. 

 Remember that your Book-of-the-Month is due next week -- Tuesday or Wednesday -- October 10 or 11.  

Targets for Today:

Utah State Core -- Writing Standard 1 
b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.

Today’s  Agenda:

1. Pick up your composition books and papers for collecting evidence. 
2. Individual, quiet  reading time -- Read your own book-of-the-month book, or another book.

 3. Continue collecting evidence with these class activities: 

 Collecting information often comes before deciding on a claim. 

1. What should the charges be?  
  • Read  the handout and then choose from four corners.   Murder - Definitions .docx
  • Take your pink sheet with you.  
  • Discuss with those who agreed with you why you chose that corner. 
  • Prepare to use some of the vocabulary from the explanation of charges in the essay you will write.  -- That will make your writing more formal and more convincing. 
B5 and B7 are to this point on 10-3-17.  

2. Collecting Evidence --- Guilty or not guilty -- on the board -- page number and at least key words from that piece of evidence.  Silently!  
Add anything new and helpful to your pink evidence sheets. 


3. Hot Seat!   Speaking the evidence with Explanation --  "hot seats" and the rest of us observe and add to our pink evidence sheets.  
"Body" Organizer for an Argument Essay


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Supplemental Materials:  
Other helps: 
Argument

Example of a claim:  (different topic)

Schools should adopt uniforms for students because they simplify students’ lives, they help students act more responsibly, and they bring a feeling of equality to schools.

 Sample Argument Essay
Summer Persuasive Essay

If You Were Absent:
See above. 

Vocabulary:




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