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__ Quarter 3 Unit: Position Paper -- Informative and Argument Writing __

**__ Quarter 3 Pre-assessment Page __**
 * Q3 Essential Questions: **


 * How do readers and writers evaluate claims, evidence, and reasoning to determine arguments supported by logic and facts and those supported by emotion and opinion?
 * How does violence influence our virtual and physical world?

**__ Research Text Set: __** "Do Games Like 'Grand Theft Auto V' Cause Real-World Violence?" "How Online Gamers are Solving Science's Biggest Problems" "Shooting in the Dark" "Violent Video Games May Stop Crime by..." "Essential Facts About Games and Violence" ** Exit Ticket -- Thursday 1/22/15 ** ** Exit Ticket -- Monday 1/26/15 ** Grammar and Argument Technique Page __ __   Debate Topic: Child Soldiers Resolution: Child soldiers should be given amnesty.
 * Argument Paper #1 Topic: **
 * Students **should** be allowed to play games with simulated violence. ||  Students **should not** be allowed to play games with simulated violence. ||

Amnesty: Full official pardon for people who have been convicted of political crimes.

Pro/Affirmative: For the resolution. Con/Negative: Against the resolution.

__Text Set Topic #2:__ Upfront Article

Ishmael Beah 1 Ishmael Beah 2 DebateWise -- Both Sides Invisible Children

The UN and Child Soldiers

Should Child Soldiers Be Prosecuted? Child Soldiers: Victims or Perpetrators? The Child Soldier on Trial at Guantanamo Hope for Uganda's Child Soldiers?