Lesson 3 - rights and responsibilities in persuasive position

Step 1: Using your Journal, write a quick persuasive position paper, using your own knowledge of what this might mean and using any topic you choose. When finished, go to Lesson 3, Step 2.

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Step 2: Brainstorm, with your team, elements of a well-written persuasive position paper, focusing on content, for use later in the lesson. Put the results in your journal. When finished, go to Lesson 3, Step 3.

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Step 3: Using your stakeholder notes from lesson 2 and OSPI provided examples and scoring rubrics, you will now look at and identify well-written and poorly written persuasive position papers. Be sure to focus on your list of good quality content for these papers. When we are finished, go to Lesson 3, Step 4.

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OSPI scoring rubric

OSPI writing examples 1 2 3

You Decide Rubric

Civics EALR 4.2.1a Participate in civic discussion pertaining to public issues at school and in the local community.

4 – Excellent: constructs an informed decision supported convincingly and explicitly by three or more clear, accurate reasons and/or specific examples.

3 – Proficient: constructs and informed decision supported convincingly and explicitly by two clear, accurate reasons and/or specific examples.

2 – Partial: constructs an informed decision supported by only one clear, accurate reason.

1 – Minimal: makes decision but is not supported, or provides reasons for a decision but does not state the decision.

Social Studies EALR 1.1.1f Create a product that demonstrates understanding of information and responds to central questions; present product to a meaningful audience.

4 – Excellent: Provides detailed background on the issue. Explicitly states and explains the history and/or current relevance of the issue.

3 – Proficient: Briefly summarizes the background of the issue.

2 – Partial: Introduces the issue with little or no background OR background is not explicitly stated.

1 – Minimal: Introduces the issues with only partial accuracy or clarity.

Civics EALR 1.3.1a Identify examples of rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

4 – Excellent: Accurately and explicitly explains how issue is related to three or more rights and responsibilities of citizenship. OR Accurately explains how the issue is related to one right and one responsibility and provides two or more well supported reasons in the explanation.

3 – Proficient: Accurately and explicitly explains how issue is related to one right and one responsibility of citizenship OR two rights OR responsibilities. OR Accurately explains how the issue is related to one right or responsibility and provides two or more well supported reasons in the explanation.

2 – Partial: Accurately explains how issue is related to at least one right OR one responsibility of citizenship. The explanation of the relationship may be implicit.