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This digital and printable, engaging, and scaffolded unit will take your students through the entire argumentative essay with a student argument writing notebook. Lessons on writing a hook statement, a thesis statement, argument and counter-argument paragraphs, citing evidence, and formal writing. PPrice $15.95Original Price $25.55Save $9.60
Complete ELA Summer School Bundle will provide you all of the lessons, materials, and activities to teach summer school- ZERO prep involved! From introduction activities and procedure slides (introduced using fun memes) to specific reading and writing strategies that have been the most beneficial toPrice $38.00Original Price $67.34Save $29.34
This entire year of ELA curriculum will take you from the first day procedures and syllabus to the final end-of-year activities. Every day and every lesson is planned and created for your 8th or 9th grade students which leaves you with a no prep, no planning school year! A detailed curriculum map ouPrice $91.00Original Price $180.03Save $89.03
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This Freebie includes two engaging and unique pre-writing activities: ☟
1. The Chart Paper Brainstorm and Gallery Walk
Lesson plan and directions for this activity are included!
2. The Cube of Perspective
❀When students have chosen a topic or idea that they are passionate about, I ask them to begin to dig deeper on this subject. The cubing pre-writing activity is a very helpful tool in developing an argument of opinion paper.
❀Students will use the cube to look at their topic from six different perspectives. Each side of this cube will guide students into exploring this new perspective of their chosen issue.
❃❃This freebie can be found with my Complete Writing the Argument Essay Bundle! ❃❃ ⇩
Writing the Argument Essay Complete Unit Bundle + Student Interactive Notebook
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Drafting arguments is one of my favorite writing units of the entire school year. As students enter Middle School and High School, they leave the safety of the small family unit and begin to see the world in which they live on a much larger scale. Fortunately or unfortunately, all of this world’s major issues come right along with this new awareness. Children become exceedingly passionate about debating many of these issues as they seek resolutions for its many problems. For this reason, I never assign a particular argument or issue to my students. I have found that students are extremely passionate about a variety of issues currently facing our world: LGBT issues/laws, women’s rights issues, Black Lives Matter, racial discrimination issues, school administration decisions, global warming, etc. Each year, I am surprised and moved by the ideas generated and topics argued with such intensity and vigor!
I love allowing students to choose their own issue for this argument essay, but that can be difficult for students who do not immediately know their topic or issue. I have found two techniques that really get students thinking about the issues that may resonate with them prior to their research and drafting stages of writing.
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