Objective: Content–I can create complex claim statements by brainstorming and collapsing lists into categories. Language–I’ll know I can do this when I draft a claim statement for peer and teacher feedback.
Activities:
- Preparation: Place yesterday’s homework, the two double-entry journals, on your desk.
- Independent Study: Highlight the “pro” evidence in yellow, and the “con” in another color. Circle the side of the argument with the strongest evidence.
- Modeling: Teacher will model how to find 3 buckets(categories) from the evidence about cellphone usage in schools.
- Independent Study: Student will decide which side of one of the two arguments has the strongest buckets.
- Independent: Students will draft a claim by using the claim statement formula: __Topic + Opinion__ because__ (bucket 1)__, __(bucket 2)__, and__(bucket 3)__.
- Review: “Steps to Drafting a Claim.”
- Submission: Paper clip today’s draft statement to the two double-entry journals completed for homework yesterday.