Make your case: 6th to 8th reading & writing
Argument: claim, evidence, reasoning and counterclaim; writing about what you read. A free 6th to 8th lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: argument: claim, evidence, reasoning and counterclaim; writing about what you read.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: what do you already know about make your case?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: make your case.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: Trail: Claim, evidence, reasoning (https://peabody.kids/world/write/write-claim-evidence-reasoning)
- Learn: Trail: Ethos, pathos, logos (https://peabody.kids/world/write/write-ethos-pathos-logos)
- Play: Make your case (https://peabody.kids/words/c6-rhetoric)
- Make: Write a 7th grade book report (https://peabody.kids/book-club/report/7th-grade)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about make your case, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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