English Standard

 1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts,

using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports

the argument presented.


Warming up to write an Argument

Write down at least three objections to each of the following propositions: 

1a) Women should be drafted into the military.

• emotionally unstable
• women should take care of their kids
• to weak

1b) The United States should have its own army

• its costly
• become one world government 
• United Nations should bring peace

1c) The euro should now be used in every country of the world.

• not everyone knows how to pay in euros
• all country's would be the same

1d) Every official meeting of congress should begin with a prayer.

• not everyone has the same religion
• conflicts of religion
• religion should not be involve with political view

 1e) " I am not responsible for saving the world"

• save the world by recycle
• volunteer work, picking up trash
• save water 

For each of the following areas, list three topics you think you could develop into a persuasive argument:

2a) Something in your personal life you would like to change.

• economic problems
• living conditions

2b) A social or political problem that needs solving.

• teen pregnancy
• minimum wage
• gas prices

2c) An area of education you would like to see improved.

• public speaking 
• attendance
• communication 

Sketch out some ideas you would like to use to support the following quotations: 

3a)  " Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence."

• When people are being discriminated, the end results end up in great violence

3b) " The most tragic paradox of our time is to be founded in the failure of nations-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism."

• need to be more patriotic
• use time wisely 

3c) " There is no greater lie than the truth misunderstood."

• The boy who cried wolf was telling the truth , and they ended up killing him

3d) " To be successful in business, be daring, be first,be different."

•  make your own decisions, don't let anyone make them for you 

3e) " The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems."

• the U.S has a good title, but yet does nothing to help poverty