2 Dec 2015 BELL ACTIVITY: REVIEW YOUR CLUSTER MAPS FROM YESTERDAY. HIGHLIGHT THE CLAIMS GREEN, THE WARRANTS YELLOW AND THE EVIDENCE RED. If you have not completed 2 cluster maps, you are behind and need to catch up Today we will learn to organize the claims, warrants and evidence that will prove our Thesis into a t-chart. how to add supportive quotations to a t-chart. 2 cluster maps and a completed t-chart are due Thursday

Your Simple Thesis: must argue a character is dynamic To answer the prompt correctly your cluster map must contain the following statement types: Each paragraph claim must state that the character has changed in that paragraph’s topic area or chronological section. 3 Points of Evidence prove the warrant

SIMPLE THESIS: In the novel, Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings, ____________ is a dynamic character. CLAIM: _________________ _______________ changes. WARRANT: At first, _____ ___________ ___________ WARRANT: Later, _____ ___________ ___________ WARRANT: Initially, ____ ___________ ___________ WARRANT: After the ___ ______, ____ ___________ WARRANT: At the beginning of the story, _____ _____________ WARRANT: By the end of the story, ___ ___________ EVIDENCE: In the story… EVIDENCE: The narrator states.. EVIDENCE: Finally,.. EVIDENCE: In the story… EVIDENCE: The narrator states.. EVIDENCE: Finally,.. EVIDENCE: In the story… EVIDENCE: The narrator states.. EVIDENCE: Finally,.. EVIDENCE: In the story… EVIDENCE: The narrator states.. EVIDENCE: Finally,.. EVIDENCE: In the story… EVIDENCE: The narrator states.. EVIDENCE: Finally,.. EVIDENCE: In the story… EVIDENCE: The narrator states.. EVIDENCE: Finally,..

Review your cluster maps…. Choose your strongest Cluster Map & use it as a basis for an Essay T-Chart. Did you highlight the claims, warrants and evidence the appropriate colors? Do you have enough to answer the prompt in an essay?

CONTRASTING A CLUSTER MAP & A T-CHART CONTRASTS: THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT Claims can be phrases & incomplete sentences. ESSAY CLUSTER MAP ESSAY T-CHART CLAIMS MUST BE A COMPLETE SENTENCE. Warrants can be one word Cluster map is very, very skeletalIn a T-chart the writer develops the ideas mentioned in the cluster. A t-chart contains more information, specific details and and explanations WARRANTS SHOULD BE A COMPLETE SENTENCE. Evidence is often a single word.EVIDENCE IS OFTEN A SIMPLE PHRASE. In a t-chart you can fix those mistakes you notice in your cluster map. No citations or quotations at all. AFTER you have paraphrased your evidence in a t-chart, THEN you can add the cited quotations you will using to support your evidence.

Using your cluster map and the template provided, to create your t-chart. Requirements of an ESSAY T-CHART In a t-chart you develop the ideas from your cluster map with details, brief explanations and cite supportive quotations from the text.

How to incorporate quoted evidence in your t-chart. Your chapter notes & character notes are an excellent source of information for quotes and evidence.

External drive /aaawriting/essay t-chart templates

Cited quotations that support evidence in paragraph A Cited quotations that support evidence in paragraph B Cited quotations that support evidence in paragraph C