Grade 8 ELA lesson plan: Arguments, claims & evidence
Topic: Evaluating an author's argument, claims and evidence (RI.8.8). Adjust the settings, then copy the prompt.
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Prerequisite skills to check: tracing an argument and its claims (RI.7.8); citing text evidence (RI.8.1); telling a fact from an opinion.
Warm-up idea: Show a short ad or opinion piece that makes a big claim with one weak statistic, and ask whether it convinced students and why.
Exit ticket idea: Students read a short argument, underline the main claim, and name one piece of evidence that is relevant and one that is irrelevant or not enough.
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