December 11, 2014

Switch Organizers
1. Tear out notecard rubric and put name on it.
2. Hand in participation rubric (if you have it).
3. Take out organizer and peer editing from yesterday.
4. Find your Ashoka partner.

December 11, 2014

Switch Organizers (Ashoka partner)

1. Is their draft claim making an argument that answers the
question why Korea/Japan adopted Chinese culture?
Can a reasonable person disagree?
2. Do they have 2 detailed pieces of evidence that support
the claim?
3. Does their analysis explain clearly why they adopted that
idea? Do you understand how the evidence connects w/
claim?
4. Give at least one suggestion for ways to improve.

December 11, 2014

Objective: Draft a thesis statement.

1. Switch organizers w/someone. How can you improve?
2. Claims & Thesis Statements
3. Can you improve your claim?
4. Look at your brainstorm for Pile/Idea 2. Draft a second
claim

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Thesis
Thesis: an umbrella that connects the claims of the essay
previews argument
links your claims from multiple paragraphs
Claims: support the thesis

Two Models
Answer to question + because + Claim #1 + Claim #2
Answer to question + because + one idea that connects claims

December 11, 2014

Two Models of a Thesis

Answer to question + because + Claim #1 + Claim #2
Ashoka deserves a holiday because he used Buddhism to govern
and rejected violence.
Answer to question + because + one idea that connects claims
Ashoka deserves a holiday because he embraced the Buddhist
value of compassion.
Draft a thesis in the box on your NoodleTools Dashboard

December 11, 2014

Works Cited
1. Go to NoodleTools Dashboard and click
"Bibliography"
2. Click Print/Export and select "Print/Export to Word"
3. Add your name, date, class and my name to upper
right-hand corner
4. Save and print

December 11, 2014

Continue to work on your two paragraph organizers.

Seek specific evidence to help you make inferences.
Use your inferences to develop your claims.
You will need to make many inferences!

What changed because they adopted ____?

What were the benefits of adopting _____?
What did they hope would happen when they adopted _________