Workshop: Argumentative Essay for High School

This Argumentative Essay Workshop for High School will help you improve your argument writing skills, from taking notes to mastering research techniques to developing essay drafts, editing peers' work, and evaluation. It's designed to help you understand and enhance your argumentative writing skills. It's a complete package for creating an argumentative essay!

When you download the Argumentative Essay Workshop, you'll find:

1. - Daily lesson plans.

2. - A presentation titled "Writing Argumentative Essays" which introduces argument methods (logos, pathos, and ethos) and teaches basic argument writing. It includes a note-taking activity with a key.

3. - A presentation on Fake News and how to Identify Quality Sources.

4. - A presentation titled "The Basics of MLA Style" with examples and resource links.

5. - An essay section activity where you work with a team and physically move to identify parts of an argumentative essay.

6. - A worksheet to help you plan your essay topic.

7. - A research notes worksheet to assist you in selecting high-quality sources for your essay.

8. - An essay assignment handout which includes: essay requirements, a formatting example, tips for writing an argumentative essay, a checklist for peer-editing, and 2 rubrics for assessing 8 ELA Common Core Standards.

9. - An editable essay template that lets you customize directions and requirements.

10. - An alternative peer-editing activity.

11. - An assessment task that lets you evaluate the quality of arguments through peer review.

This resource is designed for any secondary Language Arts classroom, but is particularly suited for grades 9 through 12. The included rubric is tied to Common Core ELA Standards for Language (1, 2, and 3) and Writing (4, 5, 7, and 8). The resource is provided in easy-to-print, bookmarked, and adjustable PDF files and PowerPoint Show files.

In total, this comprehensive resource includes 36 Pages, 41 Slides, and 1 Editable Template.