Writing an Argumentative Essay About Courage
Grade
Grade 6
UNIT
5
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Courage
In Unit 5, Lesson 3, “Writing an Argumentative Essay About Courage,” students will write an argumentative essay about what they think are the three most important things that a person can do to improve their courage, based on what they learned from the books we read in Lessons 1 and 2 of this unit: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and The Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Joshua M. Greene. Students will support their claims with textual evidence.
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SUGGESTED TIME:
50 minutes
RELATED SUBJECT:
English Language Arts
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Demonstrate comprehension of the word courage
- Write an argumentative essay
- Provide textual evidence to support claims
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
- Prohuman Grade 6 Unit 5 Worksheet 3: Writing an Argumentative Essay About Courage
ELA COMMON CORE STANDARDS MET
CHARACTER AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL (CSED) NATIONAL STANDARDS MET
LESSON PROCEDURE
- Students will write an argumentative essay, either in class or as part of a homework assignment, about what they think are the three most important things that a person can do to improve their courage, based on what they learned from the books we read in Lessons 1 and 2 of this unit: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and The Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Joshua M. Greene.
- Tell students that their essays will be shared with 3 classmates for peer review.
GRADE 6 UNIT 5 WORKSHEET 3: WRITING AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY ABOUT COURAGE
Write an argumentative essay about what you think are the three most important things that a person can do to improve their courage, based on what you learned from the books we read in Lessons 1 and 2 of this unit: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and The Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Joshua M. Greene.
Your essay will be shared with 3 classmates for peer review.
Your essay should do the following:
- Be 2-3 pages.
- Write an argument with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
- Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
- Provide at least three examples from the books to support your argument.
- Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
- Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
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