Individual+Argumentative+Essay

=Individual Argumentative Essay= Man jailed for raping his girlfriend while she slept (BWNToday) Drunk businessperson tries to walk on escalator the wrong way (BWNToday)Man finds $1 million winning lottery ticket while cleaning (BWNToday)Married man arrested for bringing three young kids to prostitute (BWNToday)12-year-old girl wins $256,000 lawsuit against her mother (BWNToday)The Breast Milk Baby now on sale at U.S. retailers (BWNToday)Woman asks why the government tells deer to cross roadways (BWNToday)Man sued after tattooing feces scene on girlfriend (BWNToday)Hotel proud to be named world's worst hotel (BWNToday)Postal worker claims she threw money in the garbage (BWNToday) For this assignment, you will be working individually to compose an argumentative essay as a citizen living in 2012 about whether the US was justified in dropping the bomb. Unlike the group multimedia assignment, you are encouraged to rely on your current thinking as well as historical examples and evidence from the post [|Ruby888] WWII era.

In this essay, you should [|gclub slot]:
 * State a clear claim and back it with appropriate evidence, from the WWII era through today
 * Evaluating the negative consequences/positives -- are we guilty of presentism?
 * Develop three main talking points (diplomatic, social, military, political, economic), with two or three sub-points (specific example)
 * Identify and rebut at least two significant counter-arguments

Checklist Items >> Might depend on grade level
 * Use language that shows you are "entering the academic conversation"
 * Five transitional words/phrases
 * Three "template" transitions from They Say/I Say
 * Include and cite at least three outside sources, one being a primary historical [|Gclub] document

Rubrics: Qualities of Writing

Resources

 * NWP Writing Assignment Framework and Overview
 * ReadWriteThink Persuasion Map
 * They Say/I Say Templates
 * Purdue Online Writing Lab's List of Transitional Words
 * Zotero