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Essay Writing Skill Camp: Linking Evidence to Claims

Essay Writing Skill Camp: Linking Evidence to Claims

Students writing the IRR often struggle with making the excellent evidence that they cite in their essays EXPLICITLY relevant to a claim. This learning experience is designed to help you refine that skill. CONNECTING EVIDENCE TO CLAIMS

Constructing an Argument: Analyzing relational organization of claims

Constructing an Argument: Analyzing relational organization of claims

Use this learning helper to refine your EOC A skills in regard to extracting line of reasoning and explaining relationships between claims and evidence.

Blank Spaces: Understanding Writing Structure of the IRR

Blank Spaces: Understanding Writing Structure of the IRR

The key to writing is understanding structure. Once you know the structure of a given style/type of writing, you can in essence “FILL IN THE BLANKS” with content.  This is a massively important thing for young (all) writers to be aware of. This experience is 

You Runnin on My Mind: A Forrest Gump Inquiry

You Runnin on My Mind: A Forrest Gump Inquiry

Forrest took us on a tour of US History from the 1950s to the end of the Cold War. Your task is to identify an event, scene, movement or moment in time from the film and investigate it more deeply! The inquiry description sheet is 

To Shoot an Elephant: Using Literature to understand Perspectives and behaviour

To Shoot an Elephant: Using Literature to understand Perspectives and behaviour

Read the short story entitled, “To Shoot an Elephant” By George Orwell and consider the questions at the end of the PDF, as well as the overarching questions, “How does emotion shape behaviour?” and “TWE does culture affect belief/behaviour?”

Knowledge, Technology and Ethics: Censorship debate!

Knowledge, Technology and Ethics: Censorship debate!

Ethics is an element of the knowledge framework and in order to explore this element more deeply within the context of knowledge and technology, we will engage in a debate on the value of internet censorship. The claim we will debate is, “Social media companies 

US History: Literature Study

US History: Literature Study

For our oppression unit, we are going to each read a novel related to the experience of living in Europe during the Second World War or a novel focused on the Holocaust. Use the activity link HERE for more details as well as a link 

To Bomb or Not to Bomb?

To Bomb or Not to Bomb?

The use of nuclear weapons in battle has occurred only once in human history; when the United States used two atomic bombs against Japan. The motivation for this use was to end WW2 in the Pacific. Was this an appropriate use of these weapons? Was 

Black Holes of Knowledge

Black Holes of Knowledge

We’ve all been there, “I’ll just watch one video” turns into ten and before you know it you’ve wasted an hour. This learning activity is designed to take advantage of our tendency to spiral down the youtube abyss but instead of wasting an hour, you 

The Road to WW2, Appeasement, Morality and Ukraine

The Road to WW2, Appeasement, Morality and Ukraine

Download the following two learning helpers in order to educate your self and provide context for our discussion about foreign policy, War, appeasement and modern parallels to the Ukraine War The Road to War: Understanding Hitler and Germany’s path the Global War and the actions