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Social Justice High School  Weekly Lesson Plan Teacher: Ms. Bolos and Ms. Bancroft Course: American Literature Dates: 11/2-11/6 Literacy Strategy: Close Reading, Graphic Co-teaching Model: Parallel teaching, one Period: 1, 8 Organizers, Brainstorming, Quickwriting, Marking the text, teach-one assist, team teaching Think-Pair-Share, Summarize/Paraphrase Accommodations: seating, extended time, directions given orally and visually, one-on-one and small group interactions, graphic organizers, chunked text Objective: Students will be able to… 1. Define argument 2. Identify an argument in a text 3. Define reasons and evidence 4. Identify reasons and evidence in a text 5. Define and identify different examples of evidence Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 t

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g define what argument is not? not? Can I construct and argument of I identify reasons and evidence in examples of evidence? a

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i “Argument” Frayer Model What is an argument? Vocabulary Squares for “reason” Types of Evidence Graphic r

e The Claim Game Teen Op-Ed samples and “evidence” Organizer t a Making Argument Come Alive M

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