1. Writing an Argumentative Essay
Module 2A: Unit 1: Lesson 16
Writing an Argumentative Essay

2. Agenda Opening Work Time Closing and Assessment Homework
Entry Task: Writing Improvement Tracker (10 minutes)
Reviewing Learning Targets (2 minutes)
Work Time
Planning the Essay (30 minutes)
Closing and Assessment
Exit Ticket: Reflecting on Essay Planning (3 minutes)
Homework
Finish your Lyddie essay planner, due next class.
Continue reading Chapters of Lyddie and complete Reader’s Notes for Chapters 20, 21, 22, and 23. This is due in Lesson 19

3. Materials
Module 1 Reflection (from Module 1, Unit 3, Lesson 6; students’ completed reflections)
Writing Improvement Tracker (one per student)
Exit Ticket from Lesson 14 (with teacher feedback)
Lyddie Model Essay (from Lesson 13; one to display)
Document camera
Lyddie Essay Planner (one per student)
Model essay planner (optional; only for students who need additional support)
Exit ticket (one per student)

4. Lesson Vocabulary
Claim
Counterclaim

5. Opening: Entry Task Writing Improvement Tracker (10 minutes)
Distribute the Module 1 Reflections (from Module 1, Unit 3, Lesson 6) and the Writing Improvement Tracker
This is a tracker to help you identify what strengths and challenges you have in writing
You will continue to use this tracker for the rest of the year
Take several minutes to reflect on and record your strengths and challenges
Share your strength and challenge from the Module 1 essay
Share how knowing your strength and challenge will help them write your essay on Lyddie

6. Opening: Reviewing Learning Targets (2 minutes)
Read the learning targets aloud:
I can select reasons and support them with evidence to support my claim about Lyddie
I can organize my reasons and evidence so they support my claim
I can explain how my details support my claim
You will be working on planning your argument essays today

7. Work Time: Planning the Essay (30 minutes)
Distribute the Lyddie Essay Planner
This essay planner is similar to the essay planner you used in Module 1 to write your essays on A Long Walk to Water
Remember you used part of this planner, the body paragraph, when you analyzed the model essay in Lesson 15
A major difference between the essay planner in Module 1 and the Lyddie Essay Planner is at the end, where it says “Counterclaim.”

8. Work Time Continued…
This is the place to think about what counterclaim you will acknowledge in your essay, as well as where to put it
Since there is no one place in the essay for the counterclaim to go, you will need to think carefully about where to include it
Get out your Forming Evidence-Based Claims graphic organizers

9. Work Time Continued…
Use your Forming Evidence-Based Claims graphic organizer to fill out your essay planners
Write your claim on the essay planner
The reasons from the Forming Evidence-Based Claims graphic organizer will help you craft your body paragraphs
You may decide to use evidence you did not put on your Evidence-Based Claims organizer, which is fine as long as it is still relevant and compelling

10. Work Time Continued…
Use the resources you have for evidence and quotes, such as the Working Conditions in Lyddie: Textual Evidence Note-catcher, your Reader’s Notes and the Lyddie’s Decision anchor chart
Work on your essay planner independently; you will have a chance to get feedback from a peer during the next lesson
Be clear and explicit in your plan

11. Closing and Assessment: Exit Ticket: Reflecting on Essay Planning (3minutes)
Distribute the exit tickets
Write a response to the questions:
What part of planning is hard for you?
What help do need to finish your plan?”
Collect exit tickets

12. Homework Finish your Lyddie essay planner, due next class
Continue reading Chapters of Lyddie and complete Reader’s Notes for Chapters 20, 21, 22, and 23
This is due in Lesson 19