Day 136: 4/26/17 - E Day: Tracing Arguments & Planning Your Research Essay

Good day 6th Graders,      

        Today we will  finish reading through our articles and tracing arguments for our research paper.  We will also work on an outline for our research paper. Please make sure you have:

• Red Folder & Agenda
• ELA Notebook
• RESEARCH MATERIALS

                        Thank you,
                        Mr. Trumble

Do Now: 

1. Fill out your Agenda with tonight's Homework

2. Pick up your articles & graphic organizers from your research folder

Homework:

1. Finish Reading Ch. 6 of HP & the COS. Complete your Lit Circle Job (Due Thursday 4/26/17)
2. Complete the Research Essay Outline (Due Friday 4/28)
3. Collect Materials for your research project
• Trifold Poster Board
• Shoe Boxes
• Decorative Duck Tape
• Craft Sticks
• Etc.

Activity #1

Research - Tracing Arguments

RI6.7 - Integrate information presented in different media or formats to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

RI6.8 - Trace & Evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by evidence from claims that are not.

Task #1 - You Do

* Read through the 4 - 6 resources you found for your research essay.
Complete the "Tracing Arguments" graphic organizer to record important information for your research essay and project. 

*Read each article & use one graphic organizer per article. Be sure to record all the important information from your article onto the graphic organizer, including:

-Title of the article

-Name of the resource

-Author's Argument

-Author's Claim

-Quality of the resource

Task 2 - You Do 

Complete the outline in preparation of drafting.

At the end of class I want you to put all of your research graphic organizers and articles that you are not taking home into your research folder in the bin.

RTI - E Day 4/26/17

Standards

RL6.1 - Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text

RL6.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details

RL6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings

RL6.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text & contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

Whole Group: 

• Read aloud Ch 6 of HP & the Chamber of Secrets
• Complete Literature Circle Jobs
• * Model & Discuss Jobs as we read together

OR...

Independent:

• Work on the Tracing Arguments Graphic Organizers, or the Outline for your Research Essay.