Opinion Writing-Earthquakes vs. Quakes!

 You will be planning and prewriting ideas for an opinion piece comparing and contrasting the texts Quake! and Earthquakes.

 Introduce the name of the text(s) you are writing about.

State your opinion and supply reasons for the opinion.

Use details and examples—facts, quotations, or other details from the text—to support your reasons.

Provide an effective conclusion that sums up your ideas.

A graphic organizer can help them plan your opinion piece while it is in the prewriting stage.

A graphic organizer presents information in a visual way.

It allows you to record text evidence and think about the order in which reasons, supporting details, and examples will be presented.

If you use graphic organizers to keep good notes, you can refer to them while writing the draft.

You are going to complete a graphic organizer where you compare both texts- Earthquakes vs. Quakes!

On the Earthquakes side you are going to write 5-7 facts from that text

On the Quakes! side you are going to write 5-7 facts from the text

Look at the facts carefully

On the bottom box you are going to state which text you think offers a stronger account of an earthquake.