Argument Unit Calendar: 7th Grade English

Day 1 Day 1 Day 2 Day 2 Day 3

Wed 2/8/17 Thurs 2/9/17 Fri 2/10/17 Mon 2/13/17 Tues 2/14/17
Odd Day (Parent Teacher Odd Day Even Day Odd Day
Intro to Argument: Conferences) Argument writing Argument writing Writing
Build a classroom Even Day practice, practice, paragraph
argument. Intro to Argument: evidence skills, evidence skills, workshop day.
Snowball Fight, Build a classroom Making Thinking Making Thinking (For headphone
Slip or Trip argument. Visible strategies, Visible articles)
activity, and Snowball Fight, annotate two strategies, HW: Final Copy
Domain day Slip or Trip articles on annotate two of Paragraph
(Claim, Evidence, activity, and headphones. articles on
Concession, Domain day (Megan headphones.
Ethos, and (Claim, Evidence, Observes)
Logos) Concession,
Ethos, and
Logos)

Day 3 Day 4 Day 4 Day 5 Day 5

Wed 2/15/17 Thurs 2/16/17 Fri 2/17/17 Tues 2/21/17 Wed 2/22/17
Even Day (Parent Teacher Even Day Odd Day Even Day
Writing paragraph Conferences) Readability chart Workshop on Workshop on
workshop day. Odd Day analysis. Gettysburg Gettysburg
(For headphone Readability chart Annotate paragraph. paragraph.
articles) analysis. Gettysburg.
HW: Final Copy Annotate HW: Bring a
of Paragraph Gettysburg. claim to class
HW: Bring a claim
to class
(Formal
Observation)

Day 6 Day 6 Day 7 Day 7

Thurs 2/23/17 Fri 2/24/17 Mon 2/27/17 Tues 2/28/17
Odd Day Even Day Odd Day Even Day
Pick which Pick which Timed Write Timed Write
paragraph is paragraph is
stronger. stronger.
Annotate FDRs Annotate FDRs
Declaration of Declaration of
War War.