Step Two: Gather Your Evidence
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Step Two: Gather Your Evidence
- Lesson 2.1 Evaluate Internet Sources
- Lesson 2.2: Search for Persuasive Evidence
- Lesson 2.3: Take Notes
- Lesson 2.4: Clarify Your Opinion and Supporting Arguments
- Animation: Gather Your Evidence
- Animation: Take Notes
- Handout 2.1a: Evaluate Sources
- Handout 2.1b: Editorial Rubric
- Handout 2.2a: Evidence Plan
- Handout 2.3a: Record Your Notes
- Teacher Powerpoints for Step 2: Gather Your Evidence
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Lesson 2.1 Evaluate Internet Sources
by Teaching MattersStudents use the Internet to search for relevant evidence to include in their editorials. After learning how to use search engines to find websites on their topics, students evaluate the websites for trustworthiness.
Lesson 2.2: Search for Persuasive Evidence
by Teaching MattersStudents learn that including different types of evidence such as facts, quotations, statistics and examples helps make an editorial more persuasive. Students then identify potential sources of evidence for their editorials.
Lesson 2.3: Take Notes
by Teaching MattersStudents learn strategies for taking effective notes and apply them to websites and/or articles relevant to their editorial topics. They record key information about what they find, using their own words.
Lesson 2.4: Clarify Your Opinion and Supporting Arguments
by Teaching MattersStudents use their research findings to clarify the opinions they will state in their editorials. Based on their revised opinion statements, students develop two or three specific supporting arguments.
Animation: Gather Your Evidence
by Teaching MattersAnimated short on gathering your editorial evidence.
Animation: Take Notes
by Teaching MattersAnimation on how to take your editorial notes.
Handout 2.1a: Evaluate Sources
by Teaching MattersStudent handout for the Writing Editorials Unit. Students use this handout to evaluate web resources.
Handout 2.1b: Editorial Rubric
by Teaching MattersStudent handout for the Writing Editorials Unit. Teachers will use this rubric to assess the students' completed editorials.
Handout 2.2a: Evidence Plan
by Teaching MattersStudent handout for the Writing Editorials Unit. Students use this handout to write down keywords to help them find their evidence.
Handout 2.3a: Record Your Notes
by Teaching MattersStudent handout for the Writing Editorials Unit. Students use this handout to record their research notes.
Teacher Powerpoints for Step 2: Gather Your Evidence
by Teaching MattersVisuals for step 2 of Writing Editorials.
