Date: 1/21/14 Aim What are the components of a strong argumentative essay? Warm Up: Please look at your assessment tracker and write your name and date on it. Weekly learning target : I can make a clear position, claim, counter claim using evidence from a text.

Self Assessment Next Steps:  Re read for spelling mistakes before I turn in my paper.  Answer the question “what does my evidence show?” for my analysis.  Refer to the text for my evidence. 2 ✔

Agenda 1)Warm Up: Self Assessment 2)Mini-Lesson: What are the components of a strong argumentative essay? 3)Guided Practice: Closely Read of an Essay 4)Independent Practice: Partner Grading using the Rubric 5)Wrap Up: Sharing Homework: Study for your exam

What Are The Components of A Strong Argumentative Essay? establish a precise and credible position that responds appropriately to the prompt. explain your position with claim(s), reasons, and evidence from the texts. analyze explicit ideas/information from texts and interpret the authors’ meaning and purpose. refer to sources when appropriate. discuss and respond to counterclaim(s) or alternate claims and/or evidence. order ideas and information within and across paragraphs and use appropriate transitional words/phrases in a way that allows the audience to follow the argument. include a conclusion that supports the position.

What Does That Look Like? Introduction Body Paragraphs Counter Claim Conclusion  Hook  Background information  Mention counterclaim  Position  Claim  Evidence (refer to text, summary and citation)  Analysis (what does the evidence mean? Why is it important? What does it show?)  Counter Claim  Evidence for Counter Claim  Refute (Why isn’t it true?)  Evidence  Analysis  Summary of your argument  Clencher (last memorable words)

Stop and Jot What do strong argumentative essays include?

Argumentative Essay Task: Read “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare about two star crossed lovers who commit suicide and “Annabelle Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe about the loss of a young love. As you read consider the roles of men and women in the stories. Using evidence from the texts to support your answer write an argument essay to answer the prompt below. Prompt Do men have more emotional responses to situations when they are in love then women are?

Guided Practice Popcorn Read the essay and label the parts.

Argumentative Essay Where does the stereotype that women are more emotional than men come from? Traditionally, When it comes to the roles that men and women have in society women have carried the stigma of being more emotional than men. Many people would argue that when it comes to love and romantic relationships women are the ones that cry more, laugh more, express their feelings more openly and even make decisions based on their feelings. In William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabelle Lee” the male characters show the opposite. Men in these stories are the ones who show us the most emotional responses when they are in love through their actions as well as their words.  Hook  Background information  Mention counterclaim  Position

The decisions that males who are in love make are often clouded by their emotions. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” the character of Romeo makes the most fatal decision with his heart rather than thinking through it. His love for Juliet is what guides his thoughts. The character of Juliet carefully executes a plan that will allow the two of them to be together without upsetting their families or the city of Verona. Romeo, on the other hand, rushes into the decision to kill himself to be with Juliet before he investigates the situation. He hears that Juliet is dead and immediately runs to buy poison and then to Juliet’s side saying on page 221 “Here’s to my love!,Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” This means that Romeo rushed to kill himself in order to be with Juliet. This is important because in his haste he did not look to see if there were signs of her being alive or if there was another way to make the situation better. It shows that Romeo was thinking with his heart and making decisions, ultimately the decision to kill himself, with emotion. Another example of a male character showing that emotional response is greater than that of a female is through the speech and thought of the narrator in the poem “Annabelle Lee.” An example is when the narrator speaks of how his love is killed. In the poem the narrator describes a young woman who he loves and who feels a mutual feeling towards him. He describes her as his girlfriend and then after she dies again as his wife although the reader has reason to believe that he is not telling the truth of their marriage. His emotions take over his thoughts and he begins to believe that she died due to the jealousy that the angels felt about their love. He says in the 4 th stanza “the angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me— Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.” This illustrates that he believes that it was a spell from the gods who were angry that they didn’t feel the same love that he did that is ultimately responsible for her death. This shows that his sadness has overtaken his thoughts and his words. He is not clearly thinking about her death yet making emotional excuses for it.  Claim  Evidence (refer to text, summary and citation)  Analysis (what does the evidence mean? Why is it important? What does it show?)

Some argue that the character of Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet” shows that it is female characters who are more emotional. They point to her threats of suicide when she learns of Romeo’s exile. Although this does show that she is emotional in this time of pain it does not show that she responds emotionally. She does not take her life she merely threatens. Instead she goes to Friar Laurence and puts together a plan. In this she is showing that she is able to think through her emotion rather than just acting in a moment of feeling. In conclusion, the male characters in “Romeo and Juliet” and “Annabelle Lee” exhibit their emotional responses in what they do and how they describe their situations. Their emotions make them blind to their realities.  Counter Claim  Evidence for Counter Claim  Refute (Why isn’t it true?)  Evidence  Analysis  Summary of your argument  Clencher (last memorable words)

Independent Practice Directions: You will read the essay on your desk that responds to the prompt and task. Please follow the protocol to grade the essay based on the rubric. Partner Grading Protocol  Partner 1 and Partner 2 take turns reading  Partner 1 and Partner 2 circle a score for each trait on the rubric  Partner 1 shares trait 1 score  Partner 2 shares trait 1 score  Repeat with Traits 2-7

Scoring

Wrap Up Share overall Essay Scores

Homework  Prepare for your argumentative essay by reviewing the parts of the essay and your strengths and weaknesses on your last essay.