W10. Written Argument Prompt: "For Whom Would You Have Voted?"

The students here always get into the Presidential election, and it's nice to hear the kind of (sometimes heated) discourse in our classrooms. So, I figured that it made sense to write a piece on which candidate each of us would have voted for, had we attained our majority of eighteen.

Social Studies - Language Arts Interdisciplinary Writing Prompt

This week's essay forces you to assume a role and write from that perspective, so don't forget the RAFT skill - it's our easiest skill, but also easiest to forget doing.
The teachers in eighth grade Social Studies and Language have convened and arrived at a prompt that will test both Writing Skills and Social Studies content knowledge.

W1. Foreign Language-Language Arts Interdisciplinary Writing Prompt

Good morning. This week's essay will be conducted in your Foreign Language class. I wanted to make sure that you had ammunition for your own ideas, so I've prepared a link to a reading that you can go over first to help you out. Make sure to click the link with the appropriate prompt for you, depending on what language you are studying.

I appreciate both your taking the time to do this for me, and Mr. Leister taking the time to administer it. I want to construct situations where you write when I am not around, so you can make sure that you can do all of these tricks that we learn in lots of different contexts and classes.

Once you are in Foreign Language class, you will have the entire period to compose your response. Remember that this is a graded exercise for me, so if you need any writing checks for my gradebook, this is a good way to get them.  Remember, you can't type on the original, so click "File," then "Make a Copy," so you can have your own personal copy. Do not share your file with anyone this time.

Latin Students
We wanted to give help with this, so here's Click here to read "The New Case for Latin," an article from Time magazine.
Here's the file with the prompt.
Again, do it in Google Drive, just like in Language Arts.
German/Italian Students
If you need help coming up with arguments, click here.
Here's the file with the prompt.
Again, if your class uses Google Drive, do it in Google Drive. If not, do it in Word.

4.4. Planning a Logical Argument Essay W1./W4.

We're learning how to plan a logical argument this week/month/year, and it is one of my very favorite things to teach, since it's really important and also can be really interesting, because it asks that you fight about it. I made a video that demonstrates step-by-step one of these prompts, in case anybody needs help.




Here's the document itself, if you just want to see the finished product as a reference for your work.