Claim, Evidence, and the Shape of an Argument: Reading Unit 2, Grade 8 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Claim, Evidence, and the Shape of an Argument is Unit 2 of Structure, Irony, and Argument: Grade 8 English Language Arts (Grade 8), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 63 pages.

• Claim and counterclaim as distinct structural parts of an argument
• Rebuttal as a response move that either concedes or refutes a counterclaim
• The distinction between evidence relevance and evidence sufficiency
• Ethos, pathos, and logos as categories of rhetorical appeal
• Hasty generalization, false cause, and ad hominem as named reasoning errors
• The independence of persuasive delivery from evidentiary soundness
• Reasoning soundness and evidence sufficiency applied to an unfamiliar text and format
• Organizational planning of an argument essay including one addressed counterclaim
• Explicit linkage between evidence and the reason it supports within a paragraph
• Generalizable criteria for evidence sufficiency across topics and genres

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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