OPENING ACTIVITY:
Improve this paragraph by adding a specific personal experience or a specific personal observation.
If you use the internet to look up information then it’ll benefit you, but if you using the web to mess around, then it isn’t helping you at all. It’s also bad because people waste a lot of time on dumb videos.
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Learning Target:
I will improve an argumentative paragraph by adding strong evidence (expert opinions and/or statistics) to my paragraphs that only feature my personal experience or observation.
Is technology making us smarter or dumber?
On Friday, we wrote essays on this topic. Because the internet was down, you had no way to research. You wrote your entire essay using your personal experience and observations to guide you.
Today you will take one of your paragraphs from Friday and make it stronger by including some expert opinions and/or statistics to strengthen your point.
You will need to do this for your final exam on Thursday. This is your opportunity to practice.
You will need to do this for your final exam on Thursday. This is your opportunity to practice.
READING/RESEARCH TIME
If you believe that technology is making us smarter, read "Catching Up with the Technology" to find evidence to add to one of your paragraphs.
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If you believe that technology is making us smarter, read "Driven to Distraction" to find evidence to add to one of your paragraphs.
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WRITING TIME
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