Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Organizing Your Argument Presentation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) explains how to organize information for an argumentative essay.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Organizing Your Argument

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) explains how to organize information in an argumentative essay. Several examples are provided to show how each piece of evidence is elaborated.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Rebuttal Sections

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides information related to writing an argumentative essay. This guide explains to develop the rebuttals section.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Problems in Philosophy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Take advantage of these resources when examining the purpose and power of philosophy and increase understanding of argumentative skills.
Website
Other

Urban Debate Leagues: Learn to Debate

For Students 9th - 10th
Wide, broad site offering a wealth of resources for beginning debaters. Includes links to videos (requiring RealPlayer). There is a link to the basics of argumentation as well.
Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ideas in Action: Visit Other Classrooms

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teachers address the practice of visiting other classrooms to observe student argumentation and criticism in mathematics. [1:19]
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Thesis Statement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on thesis statements. It lists, defines, and provides examples of three types of thesis statements: analytical, expository, and argumentative. It discusses the location of the thesis in the paper and offers...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Thesis Statement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on thesis statements; it defines thesis and its purpose. It explains the three types of thesis statements: analytical, expository, and argumentative; offers questions to ask about the thesis to determine if...
Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Thesis Statements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on thesis statements; it defines thesis including purpose and location, lists 3 types: analytical, expository, and argumentative and defines and provides examples of each. It lists 4 question to ask to determine if...
Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Personal or Social Tragedy? Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will challenge students to weigh the textual evidence for and against the claim that Ethan's woes lay in staying in Starkfield-and not in the details of his personal relationships. In the process, students will close read...
Primary
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Logical Fallacies List: Arguments to Avoid [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a multi-page PDF list of logical fallacies to avoid when writing. These include a detailed list includes fallacies in relevance, reasoning, omission, and ambiguity; and discusses the logic tool "Occam's Razor." This list of...
Lesson Plan
University of California

South Coast Science Project: Mimicking Plants and Animals Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, young scholars are challenged to think about external features that animals and plants have that humans have copied. Students then apply their engineering skills to design a jacket. In addition, this activity introduces...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Thesis and Support in the Persuasive Essay (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students about thesis statements and supporting details in an argumentative essay in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Choosing a Topic,...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Writing Center: Thesis Statements [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a five-page PDF handout on how to write strong thesis statements for argumentative essays with examples.
Unit Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Collaborative Booktalk: Sharing and Writing Development

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Are dark themes in young adult novels harmful or helpful to teens? Students will explore this question and will create an argumentative writing piece based on textual evidence. Videos of the lesson in action, examples of student work,...
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: 2014, Term1 Writing Expositions Week 3

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A four-part learning module with links to images, a website, and a video explaining how to write an argumentative piece.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Argument Writing: Homework

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A learning module with links to eight websites to use while writing an argumentative essay on how beneficial homework is.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Fallacies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A thirty-part learning module with links to texts, images, websites, and videos about common fallacies found in arguments.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Deciding Your City's Energy Future

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about fossil fuels and renewable energy sources to help them decide which type of energy should be used to power a city's electric grid in the coming decades.
Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Persuasive Text: Writing Persuasive Essays

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explores instructional practices for persuasive essay writing in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classes. It uses original content from the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies: Focus on...
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Essay Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An overview of essay writing in general with additional pages discussing descriptive, narrative, expository, and argumentative essays.
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 9: Fahrenheit 451

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students explore the power of written language to educate and influence others. They read various argumentative essays and engage in virtual collaboration to develop their own arguments. They also research a self-generated question...
Activity
TES Global

Tes: Writing: For and Against

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This TES resource provides four writing prompts for argumentative essay performance assessments. Teachers can edit the prompts if they choose.
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Thinking Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided course, you will be looking at several pieces of literature in many different forms. This unit will teach you some principles of thinking and learning and how to use basic literary terms in the analysis of literature....

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