New School Rule

1. New School Rule • Rule: students may not wear jeans • Students wear jeans with holes • Students wear saggy jeans • Students wear jeans which are too tight • Teachers can’t wear jeans Monday-Thursday

2. Evaluating Claim and Evidence RI9

3. The Target • Level 3 plus close reading (“in depth”). • I can describe and evaluate the claim, evidence, and details in a text, assessing whether the explanation is clear and the details are relevant and sufficient to support the claims, including how the author acknowledges and responds to the counter-claim. • Level 3 but only 1 observation. • I can identify the claim, evidence, details, and counter-claim in a text.

4. Step 1: Describe the Claim, etc. • Wahoo! We’ve already done this in RI2 

5. Step 2: Evaluate • Are the details relevant? • On topic • For the argument • Are the details sufficient? • Are there enough details? • Are the details high quality (logos-ethos-pathos?) • Are there errors in reasoning? • Is the counter-claim addressed? Crushed?

6. From Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis” (1776) Details: Relevant? Sufficient? Error-free? 'Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country. All nations and ages have been subject to them. Britain has trembled like an ague at the report of a French fleet of flat-bottomed boats; and in the fourteenth [fifteenth] century the whole English army, after ravaging the kingdom of France, was driven back like men petrified with fear; and this brave exploit was performed by a few broken forces collected and headed by a woman, Joan of Arc. Would that heaven might inspire some Jersey maid to spirit up her countrymen, and save her fair fellow sufferers from ravage and ravishment!