We began our week together being introduced to argument
through a Burkean Parlor, and we learned the necessity and urgency of helping
our students enter the everyday conversations that surround them. Over the
course of the week, we participated in eight C3WP mini-units. These mini-units
helped us see how to equip our students with the moves of argument writing,
from crafting a nuanced claim to organizing evidence to making our commentary
do something effective with the evidence. On Friday afternoon, as we looked
back at the patterns across mini-units and text sets, as seen in our anchor
charts, we began applying our learning of the key shifts to routine argument
writing to our own classrooms. As we shared out at the end of the day, I
couldn’t help thinking how lucky our North Dakota students are. The National
Writing Project believes “teacher-leaders are our greatest resource for reform,” and RRVWP and C3WP again have sent 12 new teacher-leaders out into North Dakota
schools.
Thank you, Dr. Kelly Sassi, Angie Hase, and Lisa Gusewelle
for this amazing week!
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