Learn to write a persuasive essay by organizing arguments in a logical order, providing appropriate supporting details, clarifying main arguments, and identifying and refuting a counter argument. W.9-10.1 Arguments, W.11-12. 1 Arguments

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In this lesson, students will learn the importance of citing text evidence to build an argument essay.

Students will state an argument with evidence, for or against, bats being removed from their environment by writing a letter to the editor and citing evidence for your claim.

Are dark themes in young adult novels harmful or helpful to teens? Students will explore this question and will create an argumentative writing piece based on textual evidence. Videos of the lesson in action, examples of student work, graphic organizers, and a thorough lesson plan are provided.

Links to 37 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard W.3.1.

Links to 12 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1a: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.

Links to 27 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1b: Provide reasons that support the opinion.

Links to 11 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1d: Provide a concluding statement or section.

Resource explains exactly what critial writing and thinking are, questions to help you think critically, paper writing tips, troubleshooting, and more.

Gives a few potential debate topics and accompanying resources from which students can choose.

Students will listen to historic news events as broadcast on radio, view current news coverage on television, and compare and contrast how those events were reported on both media by developing an essay which addresses the question "Is radio a valid medium to convey news or entertainment?" Students will evaluate the impact of radio as compared to other current broadcast media, including television, magazines, and newspapers. Students then use question sheets to evaluate and compare coverage, and the lesson culminates in students writing a comparative essay.

OVERVIEW
Students need to practice all types of writing, and oftentimes argumentative writing is ignored in favor of persuasive writing. In fact, students may not even understand there is a difference between these two types of writing. In this lesson, students examine the differences between argumentative writing and persuasive writing. After choosing topics that interest them, students conduct research which becomes the foundation for their argumentative essays.

Students use their knowledge of the teenage brain to answer the culminating task question in an argumentative written response.