Friday, January 9th

Lesson Objectives - Students will individually read the essays "Kids Need Jobs, Not Just Cash" and "Teens at Work." They will then apply the ideas of argument, claims, evidence, and counterargument to these samples. Students will then develop their own outlines to an argumentative essay based on their individual interests.
Homework - Begin reading January's Reader Response book.

CCSS -

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.8 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.6 Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.