This unit develops students’ abilities to analyze arguments from a range of perspectives on energy and hydraulic fracturing. Students also learn to develop, write and revise their own evidence-based arguments.

This lesson uses the Jigsaw protocol that will be used throughout the module. Students collaborate with peers to promote student engagement and learn about peregrine falcons.

This lesson continues to build routines for discussion of Frightful’s Mountain. Students begin by discussing the focus question regarding Frightful’s decision to migrate or stay near Sam.

In this lesson, students read closely some of the text features to locate additional evidence that adds to the author’s argument and claims in “The Exterminator.”

This lesson begins with students discussing in triads the focus question for Chapter 7. Students share reasons for the decline in the peregrine falcon population.

This activity emphasizes the importance of teaching reading and writing strategies for students to use with informational text.

In this lesson students analyze comics for samples of logical, emotional, and ethical appeal (ethos, logos, pathos). Students then write a paragraph for each selected comic strip explaining how the comic strip represents the use of each rhetorical appeal.

In this lesson, students will continue to identify and define scientific vocabulary in the text features, adding evidence that adds to the author's argument and claims in "The Exterminator."

In Jackie Joyner-Kersee's autobiography, she writes of the challenges she faced early on while becoming a track and field athlete. In this CCSS lesson students will explore Jackie Joyner-Kersee's life through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

Students will read a text and write to justify their evaluation of the claims. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

In this lesson and resource, students learn what a thesis statement is and how it relates to an informational reading.

Students will explore the personalities of the Revolutionary War's Patriots and Loyalists by participating in a character role play. The lesson will culminate with students researching and writing a character sketch of a key Revolutionary figure of their choice and participating in a Colonial Town Hall & Debate.

In this lesson, students will trace an argument in both an article and a video, using questions and graphic organizers to assist their understanding.

This Achieve the Core 7th grade mini-assessment for The Long Night of the Little Boats by Basil Heater includes the text excerpt, quantitative and qualitative analyses of the text, question annotations, and supplemental materials so that students will experience an indepth understanding of the text.

In this lesson, students will dissect a Times column about the leadership styles of former Vice President (and Nobel Laureate) Al Gore and President George W. Bush and then write their own opinion editorial on presidential leadership.

Students work with primary documents and latter-day photographs to recapture the experience of traveling on the Oregon Trail.

Students to the ways in which packaging is designed to attract kids. The class begins with a discussion about packaging and how the design, promotions and product placement all contribute to make a product attractive to consumers. In a series of individual and group activities, students compare similar food products based on packaging and on taste. An optional field trip to a grocery store in suggested to see how packaging and placement affect consumer choices.

In this lesson that includes 7 activities, students will delineate and analyze the position, premises, reasoning, evidence, and perspective of arguments.

In this multi-day, 5 activity lesson, students will review and evaluate arguments using objective criteria and their own developing perspective of the issue.

Students discuss their experiences playing free online games and then learn the costs of these "free" games in the form of paying with money sharing personal information or providing attention to advertising or branded content. Students then learn a variety of techniques for mitigating the risks and drawbacks of online games and communicate their learning by describing one of these techniques in video-game terms.