Argumentative Essay Writing - Argument Essay - Digital Unit for Middle School
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Use this low-prep, digital resource to teach text-based argumentative essay writing to your middle school students. Get TEN days of step-by-step VIDEO lessons, guided notes, texts, quizzes, organizers, and more!
Objective: Students will develop a well-organized, logical piece of text-based argumentative writing with proper citation. This resource is focused on students learning how to structure and organize an argumentative essay.
This unit is fully-digital through the use of Google Slides and includes:
✅ Teacher's Guide with directions and links to share on any learning management system such as Google Classroom, Canvas, and more!
✅ An embedded introduction video for students along with "tech tips".
✅ Two original non-fiction texts about the lost city of Atlantis
✅ Interactive, guided, and digital notes with fill-in-the-blanks for content and picture flaps that need to be positioned by the student for each of the 5 sections listed above. (That's 5 sets of notes!)
✅ Movable picture "flap" pieces
✅ Text boxes already placed into the notes
✅ Editable directions for the student
✅ EIGHT Embedded Videos that match each set of the notes and the writing process - including planning!
✅ Self-grading quizzes (on Google Forms) for each section (That's a total of 4 quizzes!)
✅Two ways to use this unit: Teacher-paced (for general education students) and Student-paced (for advanced students) - Included videos to explain!
✅Argumentative Essay Digital Notebook (For the Teacher-paced option)
NOTE: Students will need access to Google and YouTube. The videos are hosted on YouTube and embedded into the Google Slides. Links are also provided to access the videos off of the YouTube platform. These videos are duplicates of the ones on YouTube.
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The text set consists of 2 original non-fiction texts about the existence of Atlantis. Thus the prompt asks students to decide if, based on the evidence, Atlantis was a real place or not.
Using this text set, this course teaches:
1. The Writing Process:
- Read the prompt
- Flip the prompt
- Read and Mark the Text
- Plan
2. The introduction paragraph with:
- Hook (Background information)
- Arch/Bridge (Transition sentence)
- Thesis
3. The body paragraphs with:
- Answer topic sentence
- Citing evidence
- Explaining with commentary
- Ingeminating (repeat the cycle of cite and explain with new evidence)
- Top it off with a conclusion
4. Counterclaim paragraph with:
- Feature the other side
- Affirm with evidence
- Underscore the essay's position
- Cite evidence
- Explain with commentary
- Top if off with a conclusion
5. Conclusion paragraph with:
- Affirm the thesis
- Trim the point
- The call to action
Your students will love the videos that they can watch, rewind, and re-watch as much as they like! You will love that everything is ready to go! Just assign the links and facilitate your digital classroom!
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jennifer S. said, "This worked really well for my distance learners. Thank you!"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amy R. said, "Logical and well-planned; easy to use resource."
Supports Common Core Standard:
CCSSCCRA.W.1
Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
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