This document provides instruction on how to write an argumentative essay. It defines an argumentative essay as one that takes a position on a thesis statement and builds an evidence-based case to support it. It outlines the typical structure of an introduction, body, and conclusion. The body is where the arguments and evidence are developed in detail. It discusses different approaches like Toulmin and Rogerian arguments. The document provides examples and evaluation questions to help students understand the components and write their own argumentative essay. It assigns students the task of writing an argumentative essay on a given topic using the structures and components discussed, and to present a slogan, song, or dance related to the essay's topic.

1. Aileen C. Sablawon
Secondary School Teacher III
Calbiga National High School

2. I. Introduction
This lesson is about composing an argumentative essay. Honing the
students writing skills is needed for them to be competent enough in this fast
changing world of academe and real life situation. This helps students develop
critical thinking and improve their own argumentative skills by understanding
potential weaknesses in their own positions.

3. Objectives:
• Compose an argumentative essay (EN10WC-IIh-13)
Sub-objectives:
a. Present the relevance in understanding issue through arguments.
b. Write the main points (title, thesis statement, topics sentences, refutation, & conclusion) of an
argumentative essay based on the given current issue.
c. Identify the different parts of an argumentative essay.
d. Construct a slogan, song, or an interpretative dance out of the written argumentative essay

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Guide Questions:
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3. Do you want to be vaccinated? Why or why
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6. B. Presentation:
What is an Argumentative Essay?
An Argumentative Essay expresses an
extended argument for a particular thesis statement.
The author takes a clearly defined stance on their
subject and builds up an evidence-based case for it.

7. Example: Two- sided argument essay prompt.
“Has the rise of the internet had a positive or negative
impact on education? Support your argument with
evidence.”
Example: Open argumentative essay prompt.
“What is the greatest challenge young people are facing
today?”

8. APPROACHES TO ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS
Toulnim Arguments
• Make a claim
• Provide the grounds (evidence) for the claim
• Explain the warrant (how the grounds support the claim)
• Discuss possible rebuttals to the claim, identifying the limits of the
argument and showing that you have considered alternative
perspective.

10. Rogerian Arguments
• Discuss what the opposing position gets right and why
people might hold this position
• Highlight the problems with this position
• Present your own position, showing how it addresses these
problems
• Suggest a possible compromise----- what elements of your
position would proponents of the opposing position benefit
from adopting?
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12. • INTRODUCTION--- serves to capture the reader’s interest, provide
background information, present your thesis statement, and (in
longer essays) to summarize the structure of the body.
• BODY---where you develop your arguments in detail. Here you’ll
present evidence, analysis, and reasoning to convince the reader
that your thesis statement is true.
---in the standard five-paragraph format for short essays, the body takes up
three of your five paragraphs. In longer essays, it will be more paragraphs,
and might be divided into sections with headings.
• CONCLUSION--- summarizes and reflects on the arguments made
in the body.

13. WHERE ARE ALL THE CUP?
The environmental issues in today’s world are growing
more serious by the day. As a result, it is increasingly
important for the schools and colleges to teach good
environmental habits. Have you ever seen a student or
teacher take a sip of water and then throw the plastic cup
away? This is not a good habit. Here at Fujairah Women’s
College, I think we must start taking action to lessen our
impacts on the environment. One way is to stop making
cups available to the students.

14. One main reason is that using plastic cups is bad for
the environment. Firstly, making the cups creates greenhouse
gasses. For each cup, energy is required to both create the cup and
transport the cup from the factory to the college. The use of
electricity to make the cups and the gasoline to move it, all come
from oil, which is the number one contributor to greenhouse gasses.
Greenhouse gasses cause global warming. Secondly, as we can see,
the cups are often not placed properly in the bin and they end up
blown into the ocean. This is a serious problem because as the
plastic slowly breaks down into small particles, it makes its way into
the fish. If the fish have too much plastic in them, they will surely
die.

15. It is also clear that getting rid of the plastic cups will be good
for the college. Firstly, as state earlier, the cups are not thrown in the
bin properly and this creates a negative impression for people who visit
the college. For example, if you look in the empty classrooms in the late
afternoon, the cups are scattered around the college—on the floors,
desks and hallways. This does not give the college a good image with the
public, who often come to the college in the evening for classes.
Secondly, not having cups available will save money for the college.
Simply put, the college will not have to buy the thousands of cups used
each semester, this money can be used to buy books for the library or
used to go on some fieldtrip instead.
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16. Many may argue that it is unfair to get rid of the cup.
After all, people need to drink water, right? I understand this point
of view. However, instead of using the cups the students can bring
their own water bottles, which cost very little. The inconvenience of
the water bottle far outweighs the negative effects on the
environment. Others may argue that getting rid of the cups might
have a negative impact on the economy. I can see that this is a
concern, for everybody needs a job. We must, however, be a country
that looks towards a sustainable job creation. This means that we
need to always seek ways to create jobs that are eco-friendly, like
making solar panels or the materials to use wind energy. Certainly, if
we invest in earth-friendly jobs, we will all be better off in the
future.

17. Finally, it is clear that cups must not go at Fujairah
Women’s College. The use of the cups is an old concept that
may have been acceptable in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s but not anymore.
We must change our ways, and starting with the cups here at the
college is certainly a reasonable start.

18. C. Generalization

19. Directions: Say TRUE if the statement is true,
and FALSE if it’s false.
• 1. The CONCLUSION of an argumentative essay is where you develop
your arguments in detail.
• 2. The INTRODUCTION serves to capture the reader’s interest, provide
background information.
• 3. In the body of an argumentative essay you present evidence, analysis, and
reasoning here to convince the reader that your thesis statement is NOT
true.

20. • 4. Your essay should always be structured using an introduction, a body,
and a conclusion.
• 5. An argumentative essay ends with a CONCLUSION that summarizes
and reflects on the arguments made in the body.

21. D. APPLICATION:
Directions: Using the picture I’ve just shown you a while ago, compose a
TITLE, a THESIS STATEMENT, 1 TOPIC SENTENCE, and 1
CONCLUDING STATEMENT. Present/ Submit your outputs after 8
minutes.
CRITERIA
 TITLE RELEVANCE (how related
the title is to the subject/ image) 20%
 WELL-DEVELOPED MAIN
POINTS (thesis statement, topic
sentences, refutation if present,
and concluding statement.)
50%
 SENTENCE PRECISION
(sentence clarity)
20%
 MECHANICS 10%
100%

22. E. Evaluation:
Directions: Read carefully the statement below. Choose your
answer from the choices provided. Please use a clean sheet of paper.
• 1. It expresses an extended argument for a particular thesis statement.
• a. Introduction b. body
• c. conclusion d. argumentative essay
• 2. It summarizes and reflects on the arguments made in the body.
• a. Introduction b. body
• c. conclusion d. argumentative essay

23. 3. It is where you develop your arguments in detail.
a. Introduction b. body
c. conclusion d. argumentative essay
4. __________captures the reader’s interest, provide background information, present
your thesis statement, and (in longer essays) to summarize the structure of the body.
a. Introduction b. body
c. conclusion d. argumentative essay
5. Claim, grounds, warrant, rebuttals are parts of what argumentative essay model?
a. Rogerian b. Persuasive
c. Toulnim d. Argumentative Essay

24. Directions: Identify the thesis statement, Body (topic
sentence), refutation, and conlusion in the given examples.
__________1. Public libraries should be shut down and, in their place, everyone
should be given an iPad with an e-reader subscription.
__________2. Mostly will disagree because it would be a serious mistake to replace
libraries with tablets, I can feel their concern, however people we’re already living in a
society that almost everything runs through technology, people can access more
materials and can simply rent out as many digital copies as they need.
__________3. It will save local cities and towns money because libraries are expensive
to maintain.

25. __________4. It will encourage more people to read because they won’t have
to travel to a library to get a book.
__________5. While replacing libraries with tablets may seem a simple
solution, it will encourage people to spend even more time looking at digital
screens, despite the myriad issues surrounding them.

26. Key to Corrections:
1. C
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. C

27. 6. Thesis Statement
7. Refutation
8. Body (topic sentence)
9. Body (topic sentence)
10. Conclusion

28. F. ASSIGNMENT:
Directions: Using your constructed Title, Thesis Statement, Topic
Sentences, and Conclusion, complete your argumentative essay by
providing your supporting facts as evidences to your main points.
(Present also a SLOGAN, SONG, or INTERPRETATIVE DANCE that relates
to your essay-------PERFORMANCE TASK #1)
(Same image/issue)
Submission date: February 21, Monday