Graphing Common Core RST.6-8.2 handouts

Argumentative Writing Prompt – Diseases in the Mid-1900s

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This is a lesson that combines the basics of argumentative writing (claim-evidence-reasoning) as well as germ theory and the proliferation of vaccines in the 1950s.This lesson is all-encompassing; meaning the student should be able to complete the lesson without referring to outside resources. This could easily be modified to include a more robust research lesson on the spread of disease in America in the 1900s and the increased use of vaccines at the same time.I use this as a digital break for

Subjects:

Graphing, Science, U.S. History

Grades:

6th - 10th

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Homework

CCSS:

W.7.1

, W.7.1a

, W.7.1b

, W.7.1c

, W.7.1e