Objective:  I can participate in a communal guided writing response that analyzes how a professional writer develops a claim with a counterargument.

Bell:  Independent Reading:  Turn the title “Lessons From Guns and a Goose” into a question and read to find the answer in the article.

Activities:

1.  Share Out:  What is the author’s claim?
2. Think Pair/Share:  Write the author’s claim at the top of the T-Chart.
3. Provide at least five samples of evidence from the article on each side of the T-Chart:      Evidence for Claim/Evidence for Counterargument.
4. Expand Think Pair/Share to groups of four.  Complete the “Guided Writing Response” with each person alternating for each line with a different color marker.
5. Exit Ticket:  Completed “Guided Writing Response” with black or blue pen editing.