Objective: I can help edit my peer’s argumentative essay and write my introduction.
BW: Skim-read the AOW that most closely relates to your position for the argumentative essay. Identify a quote that best illustrates your position and write it in your spiral.
Activities:
- Share Out: Read some aloud. Discuss quote/connections.
- Think Pair/Share: Read aloud the sample introductory paragraph to your neighbor. Underline the claim. Box the quote/evidence. And circle the reasoning.
- Share Out: What is the claim? What is the purpose of the first sentence of reasoning? What is the purpose of the second sentence of reasoning? etc.
- On a separate paper, each student will write the quote selected from his/her bellwork.
- Each student will write his/her introduction. Follow the pattern of the Essay Organizer: Quote, Explanation, Counter, and Claim.
- Think Pair/Share: Each neighbor will peer edit the introduction with a marker. Look closely at the reasoning. Does it make a connection to the claim like the exemplar?
- Reminder: Mr. Opferman and Mr. Sapienza are available today and before school on Thursday at 6:30 am. Final drafts of the introduction and three supporting paragraphs should be completed ten minutes before the end of class on Thursday.