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Writing an argumentative letter embedded aSSeSSmeNT
Assignment
Think about a topic (subject, event, idea, or controversy) that you truly care about and take a position on it. Write an argumentative letter to convince an audience to support your position on the topic.
Planning and Prewriting: Take time to make a plan for generating ideas and research questions.
• What is a relevant topic that you care about and can take a position on?
• How can you use a prewriting strategy such as prewriting or webbing to explore your ideas?
• What questions will guide your research?
Researching: Gather information from a variety of credible sources.
• Where can you find sources, and how can you tell that the sources are credible and useful?
• Which strategies will you use to help you understand informational texts?
• How will you take notes by paraphrasing reasons and evidence and recording bibliographic information?
Drafting: Write an argumentative letter that is appropriate for your task, purpose, and audience.
• How will you select the best reasons and evidence from your research?
• Who is the audience for your letter, and what would be an appropriate tone and style for this audience?
Evaluating and Revising the Draft: Create opportunities to review and revise your work.
• During the process of writing, when can you pause to share with and respond to others?
• What is your plan to add suggestions and revision ideas into your draft?
• How can you revise your draft to improve your diction and syntax?
• How can the Scoring Guide help you evaluate how well your draft meets the requirements of the assignment?
Checking and Editing for Publication: Confirm that your final draft is ready for publication.
• How will you check for grammatical and technical accuracy?
Reflection
After completing this Embedded Assessment, think about how you went about accomplishing this task, and respond to the following:
• What were the strongest elements of your argument?
• How did you use emotional appeals to connect with your audience?
my Notes
Technology TIP:
Use a word-processing program to help you format your letter correctly and
to make it easy to make corrections for preparing a publishable draft.
Additional Standards Addressed:
RI.6.1; RI.6.2; W.6.4; W.6.5; W.6.6; W.6.7; W.6.8; W.6.9; W.6.10; L.6.2b
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eMBeDDeD aSSeSSMeNT 2
Suggested Pacing: 2 50-minute class periods
1 Planning and Prewriting: Remind students to use prewriting strategies to help them generate ideas for their arguments.
2 Researching: Plan how students will be conducting research for the EA. Will you provide class time? Will you take students to the library? Will they be expected to do research outside of class?
3 Drafting: If needed, remind students to look back at the activities in the unit in which they drafted parts of an argument and a letter.
4 Evaluating and Revising: Remind students to use the writing and revision strategies they learned in this unit.
5 Checking and Editing: Provide resources for students to check their spelling, grammar, and use of punctuation and capitalization.
Reflection Have students respond to the reflection questions and turn in their writing with their letters.
Portfolio This would be a good time for students to review their work for the entire unit and choose work to move to their Portfolios. Students should also reflect on their skills and set goals for improvement.
cOMMON cOre STaTe STaNDarDS
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W.6.1e: Provide a concluding statement or
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Focus Standards:
W.6.1a: Introduce claim(s) and organize the
reasons and evidence clearly.
W.6.1b: Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
W.6.1c: Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claims(s) and reasons.
section that follows from the argument presented.
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