S1+Taylor,+Kyle

=Stage 1 Identify Desired Results= B4. Persuasive Grades 9-Diploma// //Students write persuasive essays exhibiting logical reasoning and rhetorical techniques.//** a. Employ a variety of persuasive techniques including anticipating, addressing, and refuting possible counterclaims in a thesis-driven logical argument to influence the opinions, beliefs or positions of others. ||
 * **Establish Goals:** **(G)** ||
 * **//Maine Learning Results: English Language Arts - B. Writing

//What understandings are desired?//
• Using the correct methods, any argument is debatable in a persuasive way. • In order to persuade one side of an argument, they must stand strongly on their side and use a variety of persuasive tools. ||
 * //Students will understand that:// **(U)** ||
 * • A thesis is a single, logically driven statement that is the core of any basic argument.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• How might the use of particular methods steer an argument in a particular way? • Why is it important for someone to fight only one side of an argument? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • Why is it necessary to be able to condense an argument in to a single logical statement.

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
• **Critical Details**: persuasion in today's world (politics, marketing, etc.) (students will research their own) • **Key Factual Information**: how to build a thesis, how to formulate an argument, how to structure an essay || • Justify one side of a highly debatable topic. • Interpret other arguments - namely ones contradicting their own. • a. Use a variety of persuasive techniques in a thesis-driven argument (essay). • Argue their side (point or belief) effectively [both] on paper [and verbally]. • Be open to counterarguments in order to strengthen their own. • Reflect on their own beliefs and opinions in a logical and meaningful way. ||
 * //Students will know:// **(K)** || //Students will be able to do:// **(S)** ||
 * • **Terminology**: thesis, anticipating, addressing, counterclaims, refuting, argument, debate, persuasion

//**2004 ASCD and** **Grant Wiggins and JayMcTighe**//