Arguing Our Point

If your students seems to be arguing a little more at home, it might be because we are developing our argument writing and analyzing skills.

For the past week, we've discovered times when we've needed to state a claim in order to to get what we desired or needed.  We are beginning to understand why it is important to gear an argument toward a specific audience, because if we wanted a new bike, chances are, we wouldn't try to convince our little brother or sister to buy one for us since they may not have the funds to do such things! 

But we know that arguments don't always come in the form of words, either.  We discovered that arguments can show up in pictures, in song lyrics and of course any advertisement!

Now that we have honed in on who arguments are geared towards, and why people need to state their claims or opinions in an argument, we will be moving on soon to develop our own claims and opinions about issues that face sixth graders every day!