1. 3.1 Argument Intensive

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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