Tiered Activities To Alter the Depth of a Lesson Subject Area: Language Arts Grade Level: 7 8 – Topic: Persuasive Essay Basic Intermediate Advanced Outcome/ Students will write a cohesive Students will state a point of Students will expand the quality paragraph with a main idea and view and cite multiple reasons of essay by adding multiple, Performance Indicators supporting details. to defend that viewpoint. credible sources of support. Assessment Students will describe their Students will use the Learning Students will write a persuasive opinion about a topic by writing Activity as a draft to essay using multiple reasons, 5-6 detailed sentences develop a multi-paragraph logical explanations and credible explaining their opinion to be persuasive essay to be sources to support their point of – – assessed using the NYS assessed using the NYS view to be assessed using the – independent writing rubric. independent writing rubric. NYS independent writing rubric. Instruction/ Students will receive a rubric to Teacher will explain/describe Students will learn how to help them design and evaluate the essential elements of a evaluate the credibility of a Learning Activity the cohesiveness of a persuasive essay using a graphic source and locate multiple paragraph. organizer. sources, quotes, references, etc., to increase the quality of their arguments. Students will identify their point Students will identify a point of of view and list 5-6 reasons in view, list 4-5 reasons to support support of their opinion. it, and explain each reason with Students will develop criteria to detailed bullets. identify credible sources. Resources List of issues and problems List of issues and problems Opposing viewpoints series, (appealing to students) that (appealing to students) that editorial pages of D&C and USA have alternate points of view. have alternate points of view. Today. Homework Students will collect good and Students will collect good and Students will search the web for bad examples of cohesive bad examples of persuasive multiple, credible sources to paragraphs from newspapers, editorials in newspapers and support their argument. magazines and younger periodicals. students’ work. Pre-assessment: Quick write (short writing sample) a current topic” that is controversial “hot Subject: Science Grade: Seventh Standard: #7 The Mathematical World
Tiered Activities To Alter the Depth of a Lesson Subject Area: Language Arts Grade Level: 7 – 8 Topic: Persuasive Essay Basic Intermediate Advanced Outcome/ Performance Indicators Students will write a cohesive paragraph with a main idea and supporting details. Students will state a point of view and cite multiple reasons to defend that viewpoint. Students will expand the quality of essay by adding multiple, credible sources of support. Assessment Students will describe their opinion about a topic by writing 5-6 detailed sentences explaining their opinion – to be assessed using the NYS independent writing rubric. Students will use the Learning Activity as a draft to develop a multi-paragraph persuasive essay – to be assessed using the NYS independent writing rubric. Students will write a persuasive essay using multiple reasons, logical explanations and credible sources to support their point of view – to be assessed using the NYS independent writing rubric. Instruction/ Learning Activity Students will receive a rubric to help them design and evaluate the cohesiveness of a paragraph. Students will identify their point of view and list 5-6 reasons in support of their opinion. Teacher will explain/describe the essential elements of a persuasive essay using a graphic organizer. Students will identify a point of view, list 4-5 reasons to support it, and explain each reason with detailed bullets. Students will learn how to evaluate the credibility of a source and locate multiple sources, quotes, references, etc., to increase the quality of their arguments. Students will develop criteria to identify credible sources. Resources List of issues and problems (appealing to students) that have alternate points of view. List of issues and problems (appealing to students) that have alternate points of view. Opposing viewpoints series, editorial pages of D&C and USA Today. Homework Students will collect good and bad examples of cohesive paragraphs from newspapers, magazines and younger students’ work. Students will collect good and bad examples of persuasive editorials in newspapers and periodicals. Students will search the web for multiple, credible sources to support their argument. Pre-assessment: Quick write (short writing sample) a current “hot topic” that is controversial Subject: Science Grade: Seventh Standard: #7 The Mathematical World
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