Argument
This is an argumentative statement that expresses a viewpoint or position on something.
What is a claim?
This is the year Cortland was settled (Pick one):
1862, 1702, 1791, 1910
What is 1791?
This punctuation indicates a short pause and separates words, clauses, or ideas within a sentence.
What is a comma?
Break out the tie-dye! This is Mr. Kessler's favorite band.
What is Grateful Dead?
Someone who raises false alarms is said to be crying this animal.
What is wolf?
This is the factual information, expert opinions, data, and direct quotes used to support a specific claim.
What is evidence?
This is the name of the town that surrounds the city of Cortland.
What is Cortlandville?
What is an adjective?
Based on the original autobiographical books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, this is Mr. Kessler's current favorite TV show.
What is Little House on the Prairie?
This pasta is shaped like a wagon wheel.
What is rotelle?
This term refers to the other side of the argument, the opposite of your claim.
What is a counterclaim?
Cortland received this royal nickname because of its location on a plain formed by the convergence of seven valleys.
What is the "Crown City"?
A subject and a predicate (noun and a verb).
This is the state in which Mr. Kessler's sister currently resides.
What is New Mexico?
Found in Red Blood cells, this is an oxygen carrying protein.
What is Hemoglobin?
This is the number of quotes from the texts that you needed to use for your argument outline.
What is at least 3?
It is believed that long before there were multiple buildings devoted for this purpose, the first one of these was built as early as 1789 near the corner of what is now Port Watson and Main Street.
What is a schoolhouse?
This is a small group of words that function together as a unit within a sentence but do not contain both a subject and a verb.
What is a phrase?
Mr. Kessler's mother is retired; before retirement this was the job she had.
What is high school English teacher?
This author is famous for characters with interesting names like Oliver Twist and Ebeneezer Scrooge.
Who is Charles Dickens?
These are the three rhetorical strategies used to persuade others on the basis of credibility, logic, and emotion.
What are ethos, logos, and pathos?
This wire-drawing mill was the leading industry in Cortland for much of the 18th and 19th centuries.
What is Wickwire Brothers?
This is a word that shows the relationship between a noun and other words in a sentence.
They typically indicate time, place, direction, or spatial relationships.
Examples: In, above, through, for, with.
What is a preposition?
Name three of the six states Mr. Kessler lived in.
New York, Florida, New Jersey, Colorado, Texas, and Michigan.
This US state receives the most annual rainfall.
What is Hawaii?