6th Grade Language Arts: Begin Writing!

Today's Goal:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7
Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

YOUR Plan:

READ
Visit the Problem/Solution & Cause/Effect Essay Types.
Watch the Works Cited video to learn how to make your Works Cited Page.
Review the Model article to see what your final product can look like.
At the same time as Research Step 4 and 5 is WRITING the article. Go to Google Classroom and find your Research Article Draft. You need ONE PERSON to MAKE A COPY of the document and SHARE IT with everyone in the group AND MS. BLACK. We will call this Step 4.5 because why not.

Model Article:
If you click HERE, you will find an article that another teacher, Mrs. Hauck-Wood, and I wrote last year at a different school. There are a couple things we left unfinished at the end, but it's there.

Works Cited Page (Step 5):

Please note: You need in-text citations, and a lot of them. You can even put in-text citations after paragraphs that don't have quotes because an in-text citation indicates that even though it's in your own words, you got the information from a different source.
Essay Types:
The New York Times, in this article, outlines the different structures that they generally use to write their articles on a daily basis.

Which one are you focusing on?

Notice the signal words and phrases:

so that
in order to
as a result
since
cause
because
problem
solution
As a result
therefore
due to
for this reason
thus
consequently
due to
on account of

Anecdote: a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident (Merriam-Webster)

Check out THIS ARTICLE for an example of how you can use a real person's story to jumpstart your article and hook your readers. It is also an example of a problem/solution essay, but it's REALLY LONG, so don't spend too much time on it.

You must include anecdotal evidence (or information from an interview) in your article, meaning you need to include a real person's experience, using their name. You can find those in your research OR by asking someone you know who can speak about your topic because they experienced it or worked with those who did.

Call to Action: Identify ways that people who read your article can get involved or help. This should END your article. What organizations can people donate to? Where can they volunteer? If they're IN the place where people were affected, what can they do besides give money? This can even be a list of places and phone numbers/websites of organizations to contact.

Reminders/Homework: