The Cost of Survival

By Jacqueline Tijerina

​The Cost of survival

Word Cloud

What word comes to mind when you think of the term survival?

4 corners, 4 sides

​Adventurers should be held responsible for their own rescues.

Without any discussion, decide which is your position on the statement and think about your reasons. Take a class vote and make your choice:

Strongly agree

Agree

Disagree

Strongly Disagree

Once each group has explained their rationale, move again into the four corners. If your position has changed, join the group that best reflects what you think now. Think about why your opinion has changed.

​Second

In one corner of the room form a group with other students who voted as you did. Consider such questions such as what examples from your own prior knowledge (schema) led you to believe this. After this discussion, have a representative summarize the points that support your position.

​First

Group Formations!

Poll

Adventurers should be held responsible for their own rescues.

• Strongly Agree

• Agree

• Disagree

• Strongly Disagree

Consider this

This selection is an example of an argument, a type of writing in which an author states and defends a position on a topic.

Read: As you look at the way the writer builds a case. Analyze the text to help you answer this question: What is the writer’s position, and what evidence supports it?

​Graphic Organizer: Argumentative Writing

We will be reading the text "Cost of Survival" alongside with a graphic organizer that will help us learn how to effectively annotate argumentative writing passages. We will read the passage first before I model what I expect us to do when we come across an argumentative text.

Materials needed: Argumentative Guided Reading Organizer (GRO), Cost of Survival Reading Passage, and a pencil.

Open Ended

Essential Question: What qualities help us survive?