Sunday, December 11, 2011

Monday, December 12, twelve Angry Men / persuasive essay planning

Objective: By the end of class, students will understand character and character traits in new drama, make predictions and use laptops to research emotional and logical appeals to support their persuasive essay.

DO NOW

WORD OF THE DAY – Unanimous – A jury must be unamimous to come to a verdict. What does unanimous mean? Do you think this is fair or should it be a majority?

Direct

1. Overview of Twelve Angry Men...take notes!

2. Read description of characters and assign roles.

Guided

3. Make predictions. From what you just learned about the characters and the introduction, what do you think is going to happen in this play?

Independent

Persuasive essay development. Laptops. Continue to research topics for emotional and logical appeals. Remember, you need two logical appeals and one emotional for each supporting detail... Go back to text and check types of appeals on page Holt text for guidance. Use graphic organizers and google docs to log your information.Determine opposing argument.

Check for understanding

Check graphic organizer to ensure enough information gathered.

Closure

Review and Q & A for essay components.

Exit pass.

From the charcter trairts of who you are going to represent in TAM, how do you think he is going to vote?



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