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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Creating a Thesis Statement

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover tips for writing thesis statements for analytical, expository and argumentative writing.
Website
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 4.1: Persuasive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write a persuasive essay by organizing arguments in a logical order, providing appropriate supporting details, clarifying main arguments, and identifying...
Unit Plan
Other

Park View Middle School: Mrs. Marro Sports Argument Writing

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Numerous resources are provided to support the instruction of the argument essay.
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Claim Evidence and Reasoning

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
A slideshow with twelve slides about reading or writing an argument, analyzing the claim and looking at how it is supported with observation, evidence, and reasoning.
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Argument and Persuasion

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
A slide show with fourteen slides with notes, tips, and examples on how to write a persuasive essay.
Lesson Plan
Other

Study.com: Parts of an Argument: Claims, Counterclaims, Reasons, and Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains the parts of an argument essay. [To unlock this lesson you must be a Study.com Member.]
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Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: The Four Types of Writing Trivia Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fifteen-question quiz in which the reader identifies a type of writing for each situation: argumentation, exposition, narrative, or description. Correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Claim & Support: Test

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
This interactive assessment features 10 match and 10 multiple choice questions over 20 vocabulary words relating to argumentative writing claims and support.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Claim & Support: Match

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
In this interactive game, students match each vocabulary word relating to argumentative writing claims and support with its definition.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Claim & Support: Learn

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
In this interactive activity, students type in the correct vocabulary words relating to argumentative writing claims and support.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Claim & Support: Flashcards

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 20 vocabulary words relating to argumentative writing claims and support.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Claim and Support Vocabulary: Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This interactive assessment features 7 matching, 7 multiple-choice, and 6 true/false questions over 20 vocabulary words relating to argumentative writing claims and support.
Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Claim and Support Vocabulary: Match

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
In this interactive game, students match vocabulary words relating to argumentative writing claims and support to their definitions. The game can be played multiple times to use all 20 words.
Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Claim and Support Vocabulary: Flashcards

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 20 vocabulary words relating to argumentative writing claims and support. It provides the definitions and an example sentence for each word.
Article
Other

University of Arkansas: The Ordeal of Religious Test Oaths in Pennsylvania

For Students 9th - 10th
An argumentative essay on the underlying premise of political theory which deals with religious test oaths.
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Other

Idea: Debatabase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The IDEA Debatabase is designed to help high school and college level debaters by providing both pro and con arguments for hundreds of debate topics. These arguments have been prepared by experts in debate, both debaters and judges....
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Other

Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons Grades 6 9

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Learn to re-model your lesson plans to include room for critical thought and higher levels of learning. Re-modeled lessons cite specific critical thinking strategies. Wonderful examples include "Human Migration," "Integrated Grammar,"...
Article
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:"closing Arguments: Strategy, Technique & Style" [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a five-page PDF article "Closing Arguments: Strategy, Technique & Style" by Gary Guichard. The article is about how to write a closing argument for a trial; however, these same techniques help students to write effective...
Lesson Plan
Other

Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons for High School

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Learn to re-model your lesson plans to include room for critical thought and higher levels of learning. Re-modeled lessons cite specific critical thinking strategies. Wonderful examples include "Vitalizing Vapid Vocabulary," "To Kill A...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Trade Offs and Maximizing Efficiency in a Fast Food Restaurant

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about how to improve efficiency by examining fast food restaurants. More specifically, they learn about the concepts of trade-offs, constraints, increasing efficiency and systems thinking. They consider how to improve the...
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides information related to writing a research paper. This guide explains to write a conclusions section.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Introduction to Synthesis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn what synthesis is, why you might write a synthesis essay, and techniques for developing several types of synthesis essays. While this site is written for a college writing course, it is both useful and accessible for high school...
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University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow: Critical Reviews

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is designed to be used by psychology students at the university level, but it provides helpful instruction for anyone writing critical reviews of non-fiction. Instruction includes everything from how to be critical to...
Handout
Boise State University

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online writing assistance offers help in the writing process, grammar and mechanics, usage, and four different types of essays, as well as help on deciding what and how to document.

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