Evaluate an argument by assessing the author's claims and evidence
In this lesson you will learn to evaluate the evidence an author presents by asking if an author’s claims are sufficient and reasonable. This lesson focuses on the article, "The Little Owls that Live Underground" from [ Ссылка ]
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
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STANDARDS
CCSS.RI.8.8 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
TEKS.8.Figure 19.B ask literal, interpretive, evaluative, and universal questions of text;
TEKS.8.10.B distinguish factual claims from commonplace assertions and opinions and evaluate inferences from their logic in text;
TEKS.8.10.A summarize the main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas in text succinctly in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;
TEKS.8.11.B analyze the use of such rhetorical and logical fallacies as loaded terms, caricatures, leading questions, false assumptions, and incorrect premises in persuasive texts.
TEKS.8.10.D synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres and support those findings with textual evidence.
TEKS.8.10.C make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions about the ideas in text and their organizational patterns; and
IN.8.RN.4.1 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
FL.LAFS.8.RI.3.8 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
