Argument

What type of language should you establish and maintain in your argumentative writing?

• Casual
• Scientific
• Formal
• Important

Tags

CCSS.L.6.3B

CCSS.W.6.1A

CCSS.W.6.1D

CCSS.W.6.4

Your opinion or argument is called a(n) 

• claim 
• evidence 
• counterclaim 
• limitation 

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.SL.6.3

Which of the following is not a form of evidence?

• quote from an expert 
• a statistic
• government definitions 
• a counterclaim 

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

Once you state your piece of evidence, you have to further explain it to your reader or audience. This explanation is called your 

• Claim 
• Reasoning 
• Explanation 
• Concluding Statement 

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

Concluding statements do all of the following except

• End the essay. 
• Restate the claim. 
• Make a new claim. 
• Summarize the main points. 

Tags

CCSS.W.6.1E

CCSS.W.6.2F

True or False this is a claim?- “Bugs are highly nutritious and eating them can fix the problem of hunger and malnutrition in the United States.”

• False
• True

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.K.1D

How many reasons should you talk about in one of your paragraphs?

• focus on four
• focus on two
• focus on one
• focus on three

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

the first sentence in a piece of writing used to grab the reader’s attention right away

• hook
• thesis
• claim
• evidence

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.5

CCSS.W.6.2A

a position statement that asserts an idea or makes an argument for a specific side

• concession
• claim/thesis
• refutation
• evidence

Tags

CCSS.W.6.1A

CCSS.W.6.1B

CCSS.W.6.1C

the argument against a claim (what the other side would say if they disagreed with a claim)

• counterclaim
• fallacy
• refutation
• argument

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.SL.6.3