"Understanding and Evaluating Argument: Analyzing Text to Write Arguments"
Link: Module 4
In Module 9.4, students read, analyze and evaluate informational and argument writing and build, through focused instruction, the skills required to craft a strong and well-supported argument writing of their own. Through the study of a variety of texts, students learn to think of the products they use and consume everyday as part of a complex web of global production and trade that extends not only to distant lands but to the past as well.
Module 9.2 Focus Skills & Habits:
- Read closely for textual details
- Annotate texts to support comprehension and analysis
- Evaluate argument writing
- Engage in productive evidence-based conversations about text
- Collect and organize evidence from texts to support analysis in writing
- Build skills for successful argument writing
- Analyze authors’ use of rhetoric
- Revise Writing
- Utilize rubrics for self-assessment and peer review of writing
- Develop argument based writing
Module 9.4 shows where an inquiry process can lead, with Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science, a nonfiction text derived from inquiry and the collaboration of its authors. This one-unit module provides students with the opportunity to learn new information about the past that informs the choices they make today. This module also invites students to consider the ethics and consequences of their decisions. Students move through Sugar Changed the World with a critical eye, building an understanding of how history helps shape the people, culture, and belief systems of our modern day world. Students apply this lens as they read additional contemporary argument texts related to Sugar Changed the World, considering the structure, development, and efficacy of these authors’ arguments. The module concludes with a culminating argument paper in which students synthesize their understanding of content and the components that interact to create an effective argument.
Texts: (Many texts are found HERE)
Central Module Text: Aronson, Marc and Marina Budhos. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science
Supplementary Module Texts:
"Globalization: The Growing Integration of Economies and Societies around the World" World Bank
"How Your Addiction to Fast Fashion Kills" law.fordham.edu
"Where Sweatshops Are a Dream" The New York Times
"Bangladesh Factory Collapse: Who Really Pays for Our Cheap Clothes?" CNN
Module Performance Assessment Texts:
"Why Buy Locally Grown?" Dosomething.org
"Michael Pollan: Why Eat Local?" Nourishlife.org
"What Food Says About Class in America" Newsweek
"Buying Local: Do Food Miles Matter?" Harvard Extension Hub
"Immigrant Farm Workers, the Hidden Part of New York’s Local Food Movement" WNYC
Descriptions Adapted from EngageNY
Updated 1/5/15 (KBW)
Link: Module 4
In Module 9.4, students read, analyze and evaluate informational and argument writing and build, through focused instruction, the skills required to craft a strong and well-supported argument writing of their own. Through the study of a variety of texts, students learn to think of the products they use and consume everyday as part of a complex web of global production and trade that extends not only to distant lands but to the past as well.
Module 9.2 Focus Skills & Habits:
- Read closely for textual details
- Annotate texts to support comprehension and analysis
- Evaluate argument writing
- Engage in productive evidence-based conversations about text
- Collect and organize evidence from texts to support analysis in writing
- Build skills for successful argument writing
- Analyze authors’ use of rhetoric
- Revise Writing
- Utilize rubrics for self-assessment and peer review of writing
- Develop argument based writing
Module 9.4 shows where an inquiry process can lead, with Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science, a nonfiction text derived from inquiry and the collaboration of its authors. This one-unit module provides students with the opportunity to learn new information about the past that informs the choices they make today. This module also invites students to consider the ethics and consequences of their decisions. Students move through Sugar Changed the World with a critical eye, building an understanding of how history helps shape the people, culture, and belief systems of our modern day world. Students apply this lens as they read additional contemporary argument texts related to Sugar Changed the World, considering the structure, development, and efficacy of these authors’ arguments. The module concludes with a culminating argument paper in which students synthesize their understanding of content and the components that interact to create an effective argument.
Texts: (Many texts are found HERE)
Central Module Text: Aronson, Marc and Marina Budhos. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science
Supplementary Module Texts:
"Globalization: The Growing Integration of Economies and Societies around the World" World Bank
"How Your Addiction to Fast Fashion Kills" law.fordham.edu
"Where Sweatshops Are a Dream" The New York Times
"Bangladesh Factory Collapse: Who Really Pays for Our Cheap Clothes?" CNN
Module Performance Assessment Texts:
"Why Buy Locally Grown?" Dosomething.org
"Michael Pollan: Why Eat Local?" Nourishlife.org
"What Food Says About Class in America" Newsweek
"Buying Local: Do Food Miles Matter?" Harvard Extension Hub
"Immigrant Farm Workers, the Hidden Part of New York’s Local Food Movement" WNYC
Descriptions Adapted from EngageNY
Updated 1/5/15 (KBW)