1. Warm Up
Objective: Scientists will demonstrate their writing by applying ELA conventions to the Research Simulation Task.
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 demonstrate their writing by applying ELA conventions to the Research Simulation Task.
What is the topic? writing
What will you be doing? Research task simulation
Why is this important? Life skill
How will you know if you have done well? Demonstrated writing; completed work

3. Research Simulation Task Prompt
Articles:
The Importance of Dissection in Biology by Edulab
Dissections: Lessons in Cruelty by PETA
To Dissect or Not to Dissect? by N. Anthony Moore
Dissections in the classroom is a controversial issue, based in funding, religion, and ethical concerns.
Write an essay detailing the benefits and disadvantages of dissections in the classroom 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. 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 _____.
(Be sure to NAME the articles in this paragraph)
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, ____.