Opinion Writing- Publishing your views respectfully

Opinion Writing- Publishing your views respectfully

Summary

This lesson is most effective in a unit centered around a debate topic, where students learn a variety of ways to communicate their opinion and back it up with evidence and reasoning, while also trying to understand opposing views. 

In this lesson, students will use iPad Pages in their debate groups to gather evidence which will help to demonstrate their stance on the issue.  Students will work collaboratively to gather evidence in preparation for writing their CER claim for the next lesson. This lesson and activity will take roughly 90 minutes.

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