3.1 Argument Intensive

CONNECTION The importance of being a citizen Civil Rights Movement Women’s Liberation Movement Standing Rock protests

TEACHING POINT Today I want to teach you that a good argument has reasons to support it and evidence to back those reasons. When you analyze an argument, it helps to ask: What is the claim being made? What reasons support that claim? What’s the evidence to support those reasons?

TEACHING AND ENGAGEMENT Some Questions Readers Can Ask to Analyze Arguments What is the claim being made? What reasons are given to support that claim? What’s the evidence to support those reasons?

MID-WORKSHOP TEACHING Ads vs actual arguments Ads often don’t have reasons or evidence! Experts say these may be persuasive, not arguments Rank your reading. Which texts seem most persuasive and which seem to be making arguments? What clues let you know it’s persuasive and which clues tell you it is an argument?

THINGS TO CONSIDER What is the central claim? Can you summarize the argument? How is the claim supported? Utilize academic vocabulary