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Ms.

Cardenas
ELA 7th Grade Studies
Unit 4: Being in Harmony with Nature
Content Skills

R.I 7.1, R.I 7.4, R.I 7.6, R.I 7.8

Today you will need:


1. Chromebook, ELA Notebook, Highlighter, pencil/ pen
2. Agenda
a. Edmentum 15 minutes
b. Never Retreat Opening Activities
c. Argument and PW Notes
Never Retreat from Eyes Wide
Open

● Argument
● Point of View
Engage Your Brain

2 Minutes-Think time- What is to retrait?

Students write down their definition:


● Can the word retrait be link to something positive or only
negative?

● What would be some examples? Talk to your shoulder partner.

Living Simply
2 Minutes

● Jot down a list of activities or task you do in your day to day.

What things, products or services could you eliminate or simpler


to have a more decentralized lifestyle?
2. Ms. C uses plastic bags to carry on her grocery shopping.

1. Ms. C uses make-up remover wipes almost every day.


Carbon Footprint

● What is carbon footprint?


Definition: The amount of carbon dioxide produced by a
particular person or group.

Pick one and look up what you can do to reduce your daily footprint.
● Fashion industry.
● Food and Processed Food Industry.
● Transportation.
● Electricity.
Argument: a reason or set of reasons given with the
aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right
or wrong.

1. Claim: presents the author’s position on the


issue or problem.

● Must be supported with evidence (statistics,


examples, etc).

2. Counterclaims: the writer’s responses to


opposite opinions, mean to show that the writer’s
position is stronger.
Point of View
The purpose of a writer in an argumentative paper is to persuade
(convence) an audience that their claim is strong enough to be
valid.

Subjective: emotions, life experiences.


Objective: neutral and based on facts

● Word choice
● Syntax: the way the author arrange the words.
1. Paragraph 5

● Rhetorical questions.
Necessity is said to be the mother of
invention, but the reverse is also true.

● Invents are product of human


necessities like transportation,
network.
Word choice:
● Inventions become new
necessities.

Our dependence of fossil fuels didn’t


arise from an evil plot but through our
curiosity and ingenuity.
Introduction:
● Won’t tell you the claim right away.
● It might provide you with background information related to the topic of discussion.
● The author explains the motivation to write the essay
● The author claim (objective, subjective).

Claim: Main argument (what the author is trying to convince me to believe)?


Supportive detail (evidence)

The author’s claim is breaking down little by little into paragraphs.

Counterclaims: presents opposite arguments that might weaken your


argument.
● Support evidence that weaken opposite arguments.
Add more evidence that strained your argument.
Reading and Annotation

● 10 Minutes independent reading.


● 10 Whole Class Discussion
Argument and Point of View
Recap!
Content Skills

R.I 7.1, R.I 7.4, R.I 7.6, R.I 7.8

Today you will need:


1. ELA Notebook, Lit Textbook, Highlighter, pencil/ pen
2. Agenda
a. Kagan Jot Thoughts PW and Argument
b. Small Groups Argument Recap
c. Never Retreat Read and Annotate Text
Analyze Argument

In an argument, the author expresses a position or opinion,


on a issue or problem. And provides supportive evidence
for it. Strong arguments have:

Claim: Writer position on the issue of problem.

Support, which includes reasons and evidence the writer


provides to back up the claim.
Assessment: Kagan Mat
1. Students will be working in groups of four.
2. The teacher will briefly discuss with students key vocabulary words then
students will practice reading and analyzing sample arguments with their groups
table.
3. Students are going to be given 50-60 seconds to read the short passage and
discuss with their group table the question associated with the argument.
4. The teacher will use the numerated Kagan mat to decide the spokesperson from
the groups table.
5. The same dynamic will be repeated with all the sample arguments students are
going to be analyzing.
Small Groups Practice

People could reduce their carbon footprint if they switch


their lights off when they leave a room.
Most electric power plants use natural gas and coal to
produce electricity. A major amount of energy used in your
household requires more fossil fuel combustion that
produces greenhouse gasses released to the atmosphere
daily.

● What is the problem discussed here? What is the author claim?


What evidence is provided to support the author’s claim?
Counterclaims: Are writer’s responses to
opposite opinions, means to show that the
writer’s position is stronger.
Counterclaim/ Practice

Switching to biodegradable wrappers, packaging and containers


will help humans to reduce their carbon footprint.

What would be a counterclaim against biodegradable products?


And how could you weaken it?
Analyzing Point of View and Purpose

In arguments and others non fiction texts, authors convey a point of view, or
perspective, about their topic. How authors view a topic is often shaped by their
ideas, feelings, and beliefs.

An author point of view can be subjective (personal) or objective (neutral,) or both.

When authors write arguments, their purpose is to persuade. To do so, they use:

Word choice

Syntax: the way the author arrange the words

Rhetorical questions: a question ask to made a point rather than to get an


answer.
Subjective Point of View / Practice

● Word Choice
● Syntax

It’s easy to go up the lifestyle ladder but painful climbing


down. This is important.
It’s not hard to understand. The windfall of cheap fossil
fuels that’s fueled the West for two centuries got us used
to ever-rising living standards.
Objective Point of View/ Practice

● Word Choice

“Real world Americans experienced downshift during


World War II. The U.S auto industry stopped making cars
and switched to building tanks and planes”.
Discuss with your groups, Is the author truly convinced that
switching to renewable will be easy process?

Switching to renewable for electricity is probably the


easy part. Harder will be getting oil out of
transportation and agriculture and the military, as
well as all the products it’s currently in…and all the
plastic around you in furniture, appliances, cars, and
packaging. Can we run this film in reverse?
Exit Ticket
1. How difficult was identifying claims and counterclaims in today’s
reading? Explain.

2. How difficult was it to analyze the author's purpose of using a


subjective or objective point of view, word choice and syntax?
Explain.

3. Do you enjoy working in small groups?

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