Argument Writing-Making a Claim and Writing an Introduction Paragraph

This week, we began to work on our first argumentative essays! Before jumping into the writing, we pulled apart the pieces of an argument essay using a guiding example on bees. This really helped us to understand what is needed to effectively persuade a reader to agree with our claims!

Our next step was to practice writing introduction paragraphs. We used our guiding example to rewrite the introduction to include a hook, claim, and three reasons to support the claim. 

Then,  we used our chocolate milk research to determine which side of the argument we were on and planned out our introduction paragraphs for our essays.