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Title

Effective Arguments: Julius Caesar and Current Opinion Pieces [10th Grade]

Authors

Valerie E. Vied, Trinity UniversityFollow

Document Type

Instructional Material

Publication Date

6-2015

Abstract

This unit takes place at the end of the first quarter and carries us into the beginning of the second quarter. Students have not and will not read the entire text of Julius Caesar. Instead, to better fit the demands of Common Core, we will focus on select speeches and persuasive portions of the text. We’ll also examine opinion pieces from the New York Times Room for Debate collection. Each week bell work consists of adapted exercises based on Sentence Composing for High School by Don Killgallon. The unit ends with students composing a structured 11-sentence paragraph response to a Room for Debate topic of their choice.

Essential Questions: Why is it important to be able to analyze an argument? Why is it important to be able to build a strong argument? What makes an argument strong? How do my research skills strengthen my arguments? How do the arguments delivered by Shakespeare’s characters relate to modern day arguments?

Repository Citation

Vied, Valerie E., "Effective Arguments: Julius Caesar and Current Opinion Pieces [10th Grade]" (2015). Understanding by Design: Complete Collection. 329.
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/educ_understandings/329

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