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Pitching Your Claim with Best Evidence Lesson PlanPitching Your Claim with Best Evidence Lesson Plan
Publisher
EngageNY
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Grade
6th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
45 mins
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2014
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Pitching Your Claim with Best Evidence

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Does Bud use his rules to survive or thrive? That is the driving question of a lesson plan following the reading of Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. In an argument essay prewriting activity, pupils use textual evidence to identify and argue their claims.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

christopher paul curtis, novels, essay writing, responding to literature, responding to reading, text analysis, argumentative writing, prewriting

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • List pupils' chosen claims they plan to write about as a starting point to the grand conversation and independent writing portion of the lesson
  • Assign a class blog entry as homework to answer the driving question and gain feedback from peers before an in-class discussion

Classroom Considerations

  • Learners must come prepared to discuss their current independent reading book
  • The 11th in a series of 17 lesson plans designed to accompany Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Access materials listed from previous lessons by browsing the Included Materials section

Pros

  • Cooperative learning strategies are embedded into the lesson 
  • Notes are provided to detail how the lesson's activities meet the needs of learners 
  • The plan is written clearly and thoroughly

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.6.1 W.6.5

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