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 * Charlesa Washington**

(Argumentative Documented Essay) Essential Question** How does your opinion make a difference? Why do we conduct research? What makes an argument valid? What makes an argument invalid? What is a controversial issue? What is logic and arguments? What is plagiarism? What is MLA format?
 * Unit Plan Curiculum Framing Questions
 * Unit Questions**
 * Content Questions**


 * Alabama **** Course of Study Standards **
 * Reading **
 * 11.3 ** Read with comprehension a variety of informational and functional reading materials, including recognizing organizational patterns, evaluating strengths and weaknesses of argument, and identifying directions implied or embedded in a passage.
 * Writing and Language **
 * 11.10 ** Edit writings, including student papers, for correct parallel form in clauses in a series and with correlative conjunctions and for correct use of subject-verb agreement with subjects with intervening phrases, collective nouns as subjects, indefinite pronouns as subjects when the verb form depends on the rest of the sentence, and subjects in sentences with correlative conjunctions or in inverted order.
 * Research and Inquiry **
 * 11.12 **  Use the research process to manage, document, organize, and present information to support a thesis on a literary topic.

Students will be able to:
 * Student Objectives/Learning Outcomes**


 * Use a variety of electronic and print resources to form a valid, well-documented argumentative essay.
 * Recognize logic and arguments.
 * Use clear, vivid, precise language.
 * Demonstrate correct sentence structure.
 * Demonstrate reference material usage.
 * Use paraphrasing and documentation of sources in MLA style to avoid plagiarism.
 * Edit writings for mechanics, usage, grammar, and style.
 * Use paraphrasing and documentation of sources in MLA style to avoid plagiarism.
 * Edit writings for mechanics, usage, grammar, and style.