Objective: I can write a counterargument-rebuttal paragraph by applying the steps in the essay organizer and consulting with my elbow partner.
BW: Reread the last paragraph on page 3 of The Atlantic. Answer these two questions: What is the students’ position about “listening to music” while reading? What is the author’s position?
Activities:
- Share Out: Who believes students should be allowed to listen? Who believes otherwise?
- Turn-and-Talk: Answer this question: If you were using this evidence about “listening to music,” which categories could use either position as a counterargument?
- Independent Study: Read the exemplar of a “counterargument-rebuttal.” What is the author’s position? What is the critic’s position? Use “key terms.” Which sentence is the transition?
- Share Out: What is the “key term” that shows the author’s position? Critic’s?
- Independent Study: Title a separate sheet of paper “Insert.” Begin writing the counterargument-rebuttal paragraph by following the steps on the Promethean Board. Write up until the transition sentence. Students may use the bellwork evidence. The “Insert” page will be stapled to the matching body paragraph.
- Independent Study: Students will write the second draft of their essays continuing from where they stopped work at the introduction paragraph.
- Reminder: Mr. Sapienza is available for tutoring before school today and Friday, and after school today only.