Argumentative Essay Writing Daily Review - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Middle School students will easily practice and review what they know about how text-based argumentative essays are organized and structured with this printable and digital daily review! Focused on original texts about nonviolent protest, students will learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy.

This resource includes:

✅ A prompt

✅ 2 original non-fiction texts about non-violent and violent protest

✅ A set of questions for the introduction paragraph (hook, transition, thesis) - a total of 8 questions

✅ A set of questions for the body paragraphs (answer, cite evidence, explain with commentary, counterclaim, conclusion) - a total of 12 questions

✅ A set of questions for the body paragraphs WITHOUT embedded counterclaims

✅ A set of questions for the conclusion paragraph (affirm {restate} the thesis, trim the point {main idea}, and the call to action.) - a total of 8 questions

✅ A set of questions for the counterclaim paragraph (feature the other side, affirm with evidence, underscore the essay's position, cite evidence, explain with commentary, top it off with a conclusion)

✅ Prompt, Texts, and Questions in two sizes - one smaller size to save paper and keep all of the texts or same paragraph type questions on one page AND pages with much larger font sizes where the texts and/or paragraph questions are not all on one page.

✅ Digital version with embedded counterclaims using Google Slides

✅ Digital version with separate counterclaim paragraphs using Google Slides

✅ Full teacher directions

✅ Full Answer Keys for all 38 questions

Be sure to see the preview! :)

Your students will love that this is broken down into manageable pieces. You will love that it is easy to grade and that your students will end up with some nice models to refer to as you continue to work on argumentative essays.

How this works:

Week one: Students read the prompt and the texts with annotation

Week two: Students review essay introduction sentences with 2 questions per day for 4 days and the 5th day is for writing the complete introduction paragraph based on the week's work.

Week three: Students review one essay body paragraph (with an embedded counterclaim) with 2 questions per day for 4 days and the 5th day is for writing the complete body paragraph based on the week's work. OR without an embedded counterclaim - see week five.

Week four: Students review the essay conclusion with 2 questions per day for 4 days and the 5th day is for writing a conclusion paragraph based on the week's work.

Week five: Students review the essay counterclaim paragraph with 2 questions per day for 4 days and the 5th day is for writing a counterclaim paragraph based on the week's work.

➡️You could do a little each day for 5 weeks or you could choose to spend 5-6 complete days in a row going through each part. The questions are not marked with day/week labels to allow you the flexibility to use this as is best for your classes.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Vanessa D. said, "I love how it breaks down things for them week by week to get them acclimated to learning the different parts of writing an essay and why we need certain information."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Audra R. said, "Will use in January to align with our argumentative unit and MLK. "

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tara B. said, "I love how this helps kids examine each part of an essay...every single day. I definitely plan to use this over the course of a month. Great idea and thank you!! :-)"

Supports Common Core Standard:

CCRA.W.1

Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

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More Argumentative Essay Resources that you will LOVE:

Argumentative Essay Task Cards (Print and Digital) - Give your middle school students practice with identifying text-based claims, opposing claims and relevant evidence!

Collaborative Argumentative Essay Writing (Digital - print version also available) - Students work with a group to write an argumentative essay using task cards.

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