1. Warm Up
Objective: Scientists will describe vaccines by analyzing articles and writing a response to the RST.
What is the topic?
What will you be doing?
Why is this important?
How will you know if you have done well?

2. Warm Up
Objective: Scientists will describe vaccines by analyzing articles and writing a response to the RST.
What is the topic? vaccines
What will you be doing? Analyzing articles, writing RST response
Why is this important? Understand ourselves, future career choice, vaccines = life lesson, writing = life lesson
How will you know if you have done well? Able to describe vaccines, completed work

3. Research Simulation Task
Articles:
Understanding How Vaccines Work, by the CDC
The Vaccination Double Standard by Phoebe Day Danzinger and Rebekah Diamond
Anti-Vaccine Movements Not Unique to the U.S. by Teresa Welsh
Read. Annotate/highlight.
The prompt:
Writing an essay detailing the benefits and risks of vaccinations using textual evidence from all three texts. In your essay,
Identify the claims from both sides of this issue
Identify the reasons that support each claim and their evidence
Explain the strengths and limitations of each claim
State your own claim and justify your position

4. Vaccines What do you know/understand about vaccines after reading the articles yesterday?

5. Paragraph
Contents
Sentence Frames/Questions to Answer
1st
“Hook”
Articles: names
Thesis statement
“Article 1,” “Article 2,” and “Article 3” are about ____. The purpose of these texts is to ____ and provide evidence that _____.
2nd
Article claim
Evidence that supports claim
Strengths of claim
Limitations of claim
One paragraph per article:
What is the author’s claim?
What evidence do they use to support their claim?
What are the strengths and limitations of the author’s claim and evidence?
The author claims that ___ because ____.
In paragraph __, the author argues “___.”
From the reading, it is evident that ___.
According to the text, _____
The evidence that best supports the author’s claim is “___” because ___.
3rd
4th
5th
Conclusion
Based on the articles, a logical conclusion would be ___ because ____.
In conclusion, ____.

6. Peer Review
Swap papers with a partner. On your partner’s paper, write that you reviewed their paper.
On a separate sheet of paper, write your name. Write “reviewing ____”
Take notes for your partner:
What are some things that need to be fixed?
What are some things that they did really well?
What score would you give them according to the rubric? Why?
Note: you may write directly on their paper if you use a different colored pen and write legibly.