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English · Grade 7

Evaluate Arguments and Evidence

Learners delineate and evaluate a fictional parent's speech asking a town council to install speed cameras near a school. They trace its claims, judge whether each piece of evidence is relevant and sufficient, recognize unsound reasoning such as hasty generalization, false cause, either-or thinking, bandwagon appeals and personal attacks, and write an evaluation. A new letter about school start times checks transfer.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 minutes
  • Evaluating arguments check: 8 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Trace a written or spoken argument by identifying its claim, reasons and evidence.
  • Assess whether evidence is relevant to its claim and sufficient to support it.
  • Assess whether reasoning is sound, recognizing hasty generalization, false cause, either-or thinking, bandwagon appeals and personal attacks.
  • Write an evaluation of an argument's evidence and reasoning.

Lessons

  1. Delineate the argument 5 steps2 practiceabout 24 min
  2. Relevant and sufficient evidence 5 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  3. Sound and unsound reasoning 5 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  4. Write an evaluation 4 steps2 practiceabout 26 min
  5. Evaluating arguments check 8 questions at the end

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