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Monday, October 17th - Period 2

Poverty, Drugs, and Homelessness: Day 7

Do Now: As a lawyer, why is it important to provide evidence when you state your case?

Homework: Find a third resource that you could use for your speech on poverty, drugs, and homelessness.

Critical Thinking Questions: Why is evidence important when you are articulating yourself? How do you synthesize information from multiple sources and experiences into a coherent expression?

Content: Former Student Essay, Articles and research from class, Student Writing

Objective: SWBAT synthesize information from multiple sources to use as support in their essays.

Class Activities: Reading and annotating former student essay; Analyzing previous documents and sources from this unit: NPR article, Poverty Video, Homeless Poem; Writing support for their essay.