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interacting in Meaningful Ways: Writing an argument
Learning Targets
• Write short literary and informational texts collaboratively and independently. • Apply basic understanding of how different text types are organized to express
ideas.
Reasons and Evidence
Review your annotations and notes on “Most Dangerous ‘Sport’ of All May Be Cheerleading.” Use them to complete the graphic organizer.
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Side A
Side B
Claim: Cheerleading is very dangerous and needs to be regulated.
Claim: Cheerleading is not that dangerous and doesn’t need to be regulated.
Reasons
Reasons
Evidence
Evidence
Quick Conversation
Share your work with your partner. Compare your reasons and evidence for each side of the argument about cheerleading. Next, read aloud these two sentences from the article.
“[Cheerleading is] a self-regulated industry that hasn’t done a good job. If I was going to give them a report card, they’d get an F in safety.” —Kimberly Archie
“You can minimize the chance of having an injury, and what that comes down to [is] having a coach that’s qualified. There’s always going to be risk there, ...” –Jim Lord
Discuss the sentences. What do they tell you about the two sides of the argument about cheerleading? Record notes from your discussion.
I agree/disagree with because .
I think the two quotes show that .
Based on , I think .
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Will you please explain that?
Language
resources
claim: a statement claiming an author’s overall position on an issue
reasons: the points that explain why the author is making a certain claim evidence: the facts, details, and information that support the reasons for the claim
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