Civics for All is «Civics in the Core» because civics studies align so smoothly with the coming Common Core State Standards «emphasis on distilling
argumentative claims from non-fiction texts.
Integrating evidence is one of the cognitive skills the project aims to cultivate, along with developing a theme or central idea, making
an argumentative claim, selecting and explaining evidence, and contextualizing and synthesizing multiple sources.
Not exact matches
Given that assumption, the right to choose one's religion is the right to free participation in a political discourse that is also full, a discourse in which no
claim that purports to be a contribution to political decision is immune to criticism and, if contested, requires
argumentative redemption.
After all, if a student does not yet possess the skill to incorporate a strong
claim into
argumentative writing, how will his learning be any different if I assign a three - paragraph paper instead of five paragraphs?
Through this process, students learn to analyze and synthesize a variety of text sources; use reasoning, evidence, and logical organization to support a
claim; and understand the structure of an effective
argumentative essay.