This Building Evidence-Based Arguments: “What is the virtue of a proportional response?” unit plan also includes:
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High schoolers investigate the dilemma of a proportional response with a lesson about the history of terrorism and militant extremists in the United States. As they examine memos from the FBI and speeches from Presidents Bush and Obama, class members build a comprehensive grasp on the issue and eventually writes an argumentative essay with textual evidence on the issue.
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- Create citations as a class of the sources immediately after reading in order to help with a works cited page
- Consider constructing free-form stations for your class as they work on their papers to help you keep track of writers and where they are in the writing process
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- May require a lesson that builds prior knowledge on world events
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