As we continue unit 2 about Critical Analysis & Evaluation of Informational Texts we will finish reading closely a speech given by former president Barrack Obama. Please make sure you have:
- Red Folder
- Agenda
- ELA Notebook
- Independent Reading book
Do Now:
1. Sharpen Your Pencils
2. Fill out your Agenda with tonights Homework
3. Take out your independent reading book and read quietly
4. ***If your illustrations are not done for your poems, pick them up to finish them.
Homework:
- Bring in your independent reading book
Before we get started we need to vote for the cover of our anthology of poetry.
Barrack Obama's 2009 Back to School Speech
Part 1 - Reviewing Responses (20 Minutes)
RI.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly
as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Directions for small group:
(You Do: 10 - 15 Minutes: groups of 3)
- With your groups review your responses analyzing Obama's back to school speech.
- Make sure that you have answered the question in complete sentences.
- Make sure that you have included evidence from the text to support your answer.
- You will be handing in your responses.
- Each response is worth 2 points.
- 1 point for your answer
- 1 point for your use of evidence
Part 2 - Writing a Persuasive Essay
(We do)
Standards
RI6.8 - Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
W6.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear and relevant evidence.
a. Introduce a claim & organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
b. Support your claim using credible sources and demonstrate understanding of the topic.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claims and reasons.
d. establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.
Brainstorming Topics/Issues for your persuasive Essay
* A good persuasive essay topic should be an issue that you care strongly about, or an issue that is controversial, meaning that people often disagree about the topic. Let's create a quick list of possible topics for your persuasive Essay
Ex:
- Bike helmets
- Healthy School Lunches
- Vending machines in schools
- Dress codes
- Shorter school days
- Longer school year
- gun laws
- Mall curfews for children underage
Next Steps: (I will model)
1. Choose a topic to focus on for your persuasive Essay
2. Write a general question for your research.
3. Each issue/topic has at least 2 sides, or arguments. Write down the two sides to your issue, or topic.
4. Use your general questions, along with the information you recorded pertaining to the two sides of your issue, to write a thesis statement.
** A thesis statement is your statement where you declare what you believe to be true regarding the topic.
5. Formulate a research questions to guide your web search.
***You may choose to go back and change any of the information on your research graphic organizer after you gather information during your research.
If you finish your classwork early you may read from your independent reading book
Homework:
- Bring in your independent reading book
RTI - A Day 2/10/17
Step 1 - Pick up an article. We will be choosing an article to do together as a whole group.
Step 2 - Read through your article to get a basic understanding of what the article is about.
Step 3 - Reread the article a 2nd time and use the Highlighting and annotating Strategy.
Step 4 - Complete the Main Idea Graphic Organizer
***When you are done you will bring your work to me and we will conference about your article. I will be asking:
1. What is the topic of your article?
2. What is the topic sentence?
3. What is the Main Idea?
4. What supporting details led you to think that?
Step 5 - Write a summary
