This lesson will take students through identifying the 5 parts of an argumentative essay with interactivity and a couple of Google Slides activities.
Circle of Viewpoints helps students identify the different perspectives that could be present in or affected by what has just been read, seen, or heard. This routine relies on the ability of students to identify different perspectives that are presented around a topic. It will create greater awareness of how others may be thinking and feeling, thus reinforcing that people think differently about the same things. This activity will be a prewriting activity to set them up to write a narrative essay using the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli.
This lesson is created through the online platform SoftChalk. The lesson will take students through the 5 parts of an argumentative essay with videos and short interactive activities. When students have completed the lesson they will have a better understanding of what an argumentative essay should look and sound like.
This lesson uses images and the "I See...and I Wonder" strategy to get students thinking about the bigger concepts that objects might represent. Students often see symbols as mere objects with only a face value because of the speed with which they encounter them. However, if we can encourage students to take more time to study an object, other concepts or meanings can come to light.This lesson uses images as an entry point to symbolism because they are less threatening than literature. The images provided are a starting place, but feel free to remix and use your own images.