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Article of the week 1: Grit
Article of the week 2: Do juvenile killers deserve life behind bars?
​Article of the week 3: Gault's case
Article of the week 4: Justices Bar Mandatory Life Terms for Juveniles
Article of the week 5: Altruism
Article of the week 6: Standards of Beauty
Article of the week 7: Heroic values, suffering and sacrifice
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​Videos for compare and contrast essay assignment: ​Grading rubric for compare and contrast essay

Logical fallacies PPT
Ethos, pathos, logos PPT

​Argumentative essay and presentation #1
Examples of presentations            Examples of essay
 #1                                                          1
 #2                                                          2
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 #4                                                     

Essential objectives and standards: 


​English 10 essential standards (MUST be taught):
  1. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
  2. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
  3. Analyze in detail how an author's ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).
  4. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.
  5. Argument Writing (and all the stuff that goes with that).
  6. Conventions
    1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
    2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
    3. Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.