Making Your Case: September 12, 2017

Focus: How do we use evidence to make our case?

1. Warming up with suspicious objects and using them to make a strong case

• The crime: Your lunch has been stolen.

• The primary suspect: Ms. Leclaire

• The only piece of evidence: The utensil on your desk

• You have five minutes to make your case.

• Step One: Lead into it by explaining what was happening right before the crime happened. Set it up.

• Step Two: Explain how this specific utensil played a role.

• Step Three: Tie it back to your main argument, which is that Ms.Leclaire deserves to be convicted.

2. Offering you a brief mini lesson on using lead-ins and lead-outs to make your case (click HERE for yesterday's slides and HERE for today's slides)

• Taking the blank sheet of paper challenge with one of your numbers and one of your quotations.

3. Drafting and conferencing, drafting and conferencing

P.S. If you're needing more help with yesterday's lesson on lead-ins, click here for a student sample from last year with amazing lead-ins (highlighted for you).

HW:
1. Finish your draft for tomorrow. Get ready for some peer editing! We will do a mini lesson on introductions and conclusions tomorrow, so don't worry if yours are weak right now.

2. Open-note, open-friend "quiz" on subject-verb agreement on Friday.