WELCOME TO ELA
August 2020
• Dress code: No wearing pajamas to class.
• Raise hand: click the raise hand button
if you have any questions.
• Cameras and headphones on.
• Use polite and respectful language.
• No distractions: all phones should be muted. Sit in a quiet
environment, not in front of a window.
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Springboard app for the back up eBook.
Flipgrid for back and forth discussions.
Microsoft Teams/ Back up zoom for communication.
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Schedule:
• Warm up: 5 minutes.
• Instruction: 25 minutes
• Q&A: 10 minutes.
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EXPLORING THE SYLLABUS
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
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SUMMER READING
• Character Development
• Themes
• Analysis
• Testing
• mkleit@alhadi.com
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RECORD A RESPONSE:
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QUOTATION
• There may be times when we are powerless to
prevent injustice, but there must never be a
time when we fail to protest. … We may be
powerless to open all the jails and free all
prisoners, but by declaring our solidarity with
one prisoner, we indict all jailers. None of us is
in a position to eliminate war, but it is our
obligation to denounce it and expose it in all
its hideousness.
• —from “Hope, Despair, and Memory” by Elie
Wiesel
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Form at least one
question they hope
to answer by the end
of the unit.
SLIDO.COM - CODE:
69115
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UNIT PREVIEW
• One person has the power to influence
fellow human beings to take action or
change their thinking. To persuade an
audience, writers, speakers, and artists
work to craft well-organized, wellsupported, vivid, and engaging arguments
with clear statements of opinion. In this
unit, you will study the power of
argument.You will begin by analyzing a
variety of argumentative texts including
an essay, an op-ed, a cartoon, and a
spoken word poem.
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BASED ON YOUR CURRENT THINKING, HOW WOULD YOU
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS?
1. How should we
interact with the
world around us?
2. To what extent
are we responsible
for our fellow
humans?
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3. How do we use
evidence to create
a persuasive
argument?
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ESCAPE
FROM
REALITY
• In this activity, you will read a
cartoon and an argumentative
text, and then determine the
claims and evidence presented
by the authors.
• Observation
• Inference
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DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN
OBSERVATION &
INFERENCE
• Your explanation, for example,
could be, “An observation is
something you sense: taste,
touch, smell, see, or hear.
An inference is something you
decide or think about a thing or
event after you observe it.”
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EXAMPLE
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LOOKING INTO DETAILS
the boy is looking
at his computer;
there are toys on
the boy’s shelf;
the man’s face is
turned toward the
boy while his body
faces a desk;
both the boy and
the man are using
computers;
the man is using
the words wanna,
ol’, and pigskin;
the man describes
the pigskin with
the adjective
virtual
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Observatio
n
Inference
DIFFERENCES
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What is Twohy arguing?
CLAIMS AND
EVIDENCE
What evidence does Twohy
include to support his
argument?
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Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make
Us Better and How They Can Change
the World (Part One)
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• Discuss the ways in which video games might
help people overcome health challenges.
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Solve Returning to the Text
questions p: 11 ONLY.
Submit on MT in Returning
to text assignment
ASSIGNMENT
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• In paragraphs 2 and 3, who does the word they refer to? What does the word it refer
to? How do you know?
• How is the word abandoning different in tone than its near synonym leaving? Why
might McGonigal have chosen to use the term abandoning in paragraph 2?
• Based on its context, what do you think the phrase in droves means in paragraph 2?
How does that term help convey the author’s message and intended tone?
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Collaborative Conversation: How does
McGonigal use claims, evidence, and
reasoning/examples together to produce
an argument?
WORKING
FROM TEXT
P:13
Both images and texts can present arguments, but
they communicate their messages in different ways.
How might McGonigal’s claim be presented in a
visual text? If Twohy were writing his argument
instead of drawing it, what types of evidence might
he include?
Both the cartoon and the excerpt from Reality Is
Broken contrast life within virtual environments
and life in reality. Would McGonigal most likely
agree or disagree with the claim that Twohy makes
in his cartoon? What evidence from McGonigal’s
excerpt supports your response?
How does McGonigal use diction
to strengthen her argument?
Revisit your answers to questions
6, 7, and 12.
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• Paragraph starter, if needed:
• McGonigal expands her claim that
_________ through evidence such
as_________________
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IT’S ALL A PART OF THE GAME:
COUNTERING OPPOSING CLAIMS
• In this activity, you will finish reading the excerpt from Reality Is
Broken and examine how the author uses counterarguments. Then,
you will write an analysis of her argument.
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RETURNING TO TEXT P:19
• McGonigal chooses to use the phrase engage in games instead of play games. How does
each phrase communicate a different tone? Why might McGonigal have chosen the
phrase engage in games?
• McGonigal chooses to use the words scarcity, famine, and abstain. What do these words
have in common, and why might McGonigal have selected them? Use context clues or
a dictionary for help, if needed.
• Whom is McGonigal trying to convince? What evidence supports your answer?
• As part of McGonigal’s counterargument, which groups does she identify as the
opponents of her claim?
• To strengthen her counterargument, which negative emotions does McGonigal
associate with these groups?
Counterargument: opposing argument (mentioning)
Rebuttal: fight back / prove it wrong
Concession: you might agree with the opposing argument, but you have better solution/
reason.
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• A strong argument does not shy away from
opposition. In fact, it tackles the opposition directly by
presenting a counterargument. A counterargument
is a counterclaim that might be made by the opposing
party.
• The argument offers a rebuttal to the
counterargument. The rebuttal provides evidence
and reasoning that disproves or highlights the
shortcomings of the counterclaim.
• Because it is often difficult to persuade an opponent
to change a stance by dismissing a counterargument
entirely, an effective rhetorician knows the power of
concession—the practice of acknowledging the
validity of part of a counterclaim.
• Conceding some things while still rebutting the
overall counterclaim can make the argument stronger
by making the writer or speaker seem balanced and
reasonable.
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• According to McGonigal, how do these opposing parties view gaming? How does the
acknowledgment of these opposing parties strengthen McGonigal’s argument?
• Choose one of the opposing perspectives that McGonigal identifies in paragraphs 15–21 and
write a paragraph or two voicing your concerns about gaming from that point of view.Your
paragraph(s) should present a brief argument, asserting a claim and supplying evidence and
reasoning to support that claim.Your word choice should reflect the emotional tone that
McGonigal ascribes to your perspective (e.g., if you are expressing bewilderment, you might
use a word like mystified).
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