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Gateway Activity

Enhance public speaking skills in 8th-grade Language Arts through a focus on core standards, argument evaluation, and effective communication techniques. This activity emphasizes synthesizing arguments and articulating findings with relevant evidence. Students will engage in structured academic conversations (SAC) to present claims coherently. The approach includes reading comprehension, counterarguments, eye contact, volume, and pronunciation. Assistance will be provided for skill development over three days of the SAC. Suburban middle school, mainly Caucasian, with a diverse student population.

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Gateway Activity

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  1. Gateway Activity SAC: Cloning

  2. Who and What I Will be Teaching • 8th grade Language Arts • I teach in a suburban middle school, mainly middle class, split fairly evenly between males and females • The students are mostly Caucasian, with about 10% Latino, 5% Asian, and less than 3% African American • I will focus on two common core standards for 8th graders: • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.8.3: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and evaluating when irrelevant evidence is introduced. • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.8.4: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye-contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.

  3. Description • This will be good for them to learn public speaking skills • Assessed on adherence to standards • More focus on the skills involved than the actual content • Students will be required to read material and find main points, synthesize arguments, and identify counterarguments; speak coherently with appropriate volume and eye contact

  4. We have worked at pulling main points from texts • We have talked about rules for discussion • They have never done a SAC • They will need to go over protocol, and will probably need a lot of assistance over the three days that we do the SAC • Opinions over doing it perfectly

  5. SAC • Cloning • Over the first three days of the unit • Day 1: Introduction, protocol • Day 2: Reading and researching, graphic organizer • Day 3: SAC and debrief

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