Fortunately for all of us, you have a past in argumentation with claims, evidence, and warrants. Why is that a happy moment for AP Langers? Unfortunately for us, we are working a deadline for our first argumentative essay, the Educator/Employee of the Year argument. So, in class, except for fourth hour who finished the Q & O rounds, we had the review of claims, evidence, and warrants. (If you're thinking, wow, that was a fast review, don't worry, we will have more opportunities to focus on these parts of argument in the upcoming week.) Here are the 2 websites that I had on the projector today: Vanderbilt Claim & OWL Argumentation.
For those of you starting the Teacher of the Year essay outside of class, I have 2 recommendations for the organization.
Option 1:
Paragraph 1 - hook (with anecdote, analogy, something) and claim, the introduction
Paragraph 2 - body paragraph 1 with evidence relating to either the personal experience or the whole school experience
Paragraph 3 - body paragraph 2 with evidence relating to either the personal experience or the whole school experience, i.e. the opposite of what you did in the last paragraph and then add a concluding sentence to the essay.
Option 2:
Same as above but have a fourth paragraph for a full conclusion and a possible return to the hook.
Whatever the case, make sure to bring in specific examples and terminology from the class to make your essay that much more specific.
First hour, at this point, knows the gist of the "Year" argument and will begin writing the essay tomorrow. If you want to start that this evening, go for it!
Third hour, at this point, knows that they will starting the "Year" argument tomorrow, but we have yet to go over the background and suggestions for organization, which will happen at the start of class tomorrow.
Fourth hour, at this point, has not started the argumentative review until tomorrow.
Seventh hour, at this point, has ideas for organizing the essay and has started the writing process.
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