1. Please get out your article from Friday. It is due today.2. Please get out your notebook for some notes.3. You should have a choice novel already chosen. If you

don’t have it today, bring it tomorrow. I will get titles and page numbers. Your first one page is due Friday, Oct. 3!

4. Tomorrow we begin our unit on bias!

Today’s outcomes:1. Review and grade annotation homework2. Review and practice C-E-W (claim-evidence-warrant)

through murder mysteries!

How are you progressing with annotations? Look at your packet and score yourself. Put score on front page!

4 Great progress. At least 5 annotations per page, writing in the margins, different types of annotations used, some questions and main ideas are written in the margins

3 Good progress. Most pages have at least 5 annotations per page, there is some writing in the margins, a few different types of annotations are used, might be lacking questions in the margin

2 So, so progress. Some pages have at least 5 annotations per page, there is occasional writing in the margins, a couple different types of annotations are used

1 Little progress. Few pages have at least 5 annotations per page, there is little to no writing in the margins

0 Not yet. There are not enough annotations to evaluate yet.

You may want to take a few notes today as we review

Claim, Evidence, and Warrant.

Must be an OPINION, not a FACT Must be SPECIFIC

Must be about the TEXT

This is specific textual evidence that supports or proves your opinion; you give the specific textual evidence to the reader. Don’t let the reader guess the information!

Quotes from the textMake sure to introduce each quote with “for example,” or

“the author states” or “In addition, the author mentions” or something like that. Don’t just plop evidence into the paragraph; make use of the transition words!

All evidence that you take from the article must be in quotation marks “”!

Use separate pieces of evidence for each claim.

Evidence:

Explain HOW the evidence supports your claim.Explain even things you think are obvious!Use transition words.The warrant is usually is at least 2 sentences in

length and maybe longer. It should be longer than the evidence you are explaining.

Warrant:

Make good use of transition words:For example…In addition,…On the other hand,…However,…Finally, …

Pulling it all together

Introducing Evidence:For example, in the article…Author _________ states…(Author Name) writes…

Introducing your Warrant (Simple): This _____ shows (i.e. “This quote shows…”)This _____ proves/disproves (“this statistic proves…”)This _____ is important because

Introducing your Warrant (a bit fancier):This _____ clarifiesThis _____ suggestsThis _____ underminesThis _____ enhancesThis _____ argues that

Review

What is a CLAIM?

What is EVIDENCE?

What is a WARRANT?

CLAIM: A statement that coveys your interpretation/belief about something. This is a conclusion you have drawn from the facts presented. A claim can be argued.

EVIDENCE: Facts from the text (commercial, journal, book, prompt whatever!) used to support your claim. All good arguments must be supported by a strong foundation of facts. In other words, one fact is not enough!

WARRANT: Explain HOW and WHY this evidence supports your claim. It’s the “SO WHAT?”

Find a partner and see if you can solve these crimes!

When you think you have figured it out, please write a CEW paragraph explaining

your solution.

Rescue at Sea“Thank heaven you saw me!” exclaimed Tom Bond as he feebly helped make fast

his battered yawl to Dr. Haledjian’s chartered fishing boat.Haledjian reached over the side and assisted the bedraggled yachtsman aboard.Bond staggered into the shade of the cabin and sagged upon a berth. He

removed his cap to wipe the perspiration from his brow, revealing a bald, freckled head.

“Drink this,” said Haledjian, holding out a cup of water.Bond gulped it frantically, asked for a second, and when he had downed it, told of

his ordeal.“Ben Page and I were sailing when the storm hit us. The sails, rudder, and radio

went in the first five minutes. We barely managed to keep afloat.“We drifted five days, lost. Three days ago our fresh water supply gave out. Ben

went crazy with the heat and thirst. He started to drink the ocean water. I tried to restrain him – I hit him. He – he struck his head against the starboard rail. He’s dead! It’s my fault!”

Haledjian climbed into Bond’s disheveled yacht. In the little cabin he found Ben Page laid out on his back, dead. The criminologist studied the bruise on Page’s jaw and the one at the base of his skull.

Back on the fishing boat, he warned Bond grimly, “You’re going to have to tell the police a better tale than the one you told me!”

Is Haledjian correct? Did Bond kill Ben Page? Explain using CEW.

“Thank heaven you saw me!” exclaimed Tom Bond as he feebly helped make fast his battered yawl to Dr. Haledjian’s chartered fishing boat.

Haledjian reached over the side and assisted the bedraggled yachtsman aboard.

Bond staggered into the shade of the cabin and sagged upon a berth. He removed his cap to wipe the perspiration from his brow, revealing a bald, freckled head.

“Drink this,” said Haledjian, holding out a cup of water.

Bond gulped it frantically, asked for a second, and when he had downed it, told of his ordeal.

“Ben Page and I were sailing when the storm hit us. The sails, rudder, and radio went in the first five minutes. We barely managed to keep afloat.

“We drifted five days, lost. Three days ago our fresh water supply gave out. Ben went crazy with the heat and thirst. He started to drink the ocean water. I tried to restrain him – I hit him. He – he struck his head against the starboard rail. He’s dead! It’s my fault!”

Haledjian climbed into Bond’s disheveled yacht. In the little cabin he found Ben Page laid out on his back, dead. The criminologist studied the bruise on Page’s jaw and the one at the base of his skull.

Back on the fishing boat, he warned Bond grimly, “You’re going to have to tell the police a better tale than the one you told me!”

Is Haledjian correct? Did Bond kill Ben Page? Explain using CEW.

Claim:

Evidence Warrant

Claim:Bond DID kill Ben Page.

Evidence Warrant

When Bond got on the boat, he took off his hat and “removed his cap to wipe the perspiration from his brow, revealing a bald, freckled head.” He later told Haledjian that the fresh water supply ran out “three days ago.”

If the fresh water supply had run out three days ago, that would mean that neither man drank any fresh water. Without fresh water, Bond would not perspire-in fact, he would have been dehydrated. Had he been dehydrated, he couldn’t have “wiped the perspiration from his brow.” Bond lied about the water running out and Ben going crazy.

The Traveler

“Try the manual dial,” suggested Dr. Haledjian, after Captain Gordon of the Miami police had punched all the push buttons of the radio and had got only static.Immediately, music pored out noisily.“Do you always play the radio so loud?” snapped Gordon at the pale youth riding handcuffed in the rear seat of the car.“I play it any way I feel like. It’s my convertible,” retorted McGuire.Haledjian turned down the volume. For the rest of the drive to headquarters he thoughtfully reviewed the case.The Chicago National Bank had been held up four days ago, and more than half a million dollars was stolen. One of the holdup men, according to the Chicago Police Department’s informer, was Billy McGuire, a young ex-convict. The informer said McGuire had headed straight for Miami in a green convertible after the crime.That morning the convertible had been spotted in the driveway of a big-time Florida gambler. The gambler swore the youth had been living with him in Miami for two months, and therefore couldn’t have taken part in a Chicago robbery.A search of the gambler’s home disclosed McGuire’s summer clothing in the guest room, and throughout the house a typical amount of underworld luxury, including a connoisseur’s collection of popular records. But none of the stolen money.“You’re wastin’ your time, Gordon,” taunted McGuire. “Hey—tune up the radio. That’s the Dixie Bobcats. Ain’t they the greatest?”“Like popular music, do you?” inquired Haledjian.“I like a lot of things. Especially this Florida climate,” sneered McGuire.“Enjoy it while you can,” answered Haledjian. Is McGuire guilty of robbing the Chicago National Bank? Explain using CEW.

“Try the manual dial,” suggested Dr. Haledjian, after Captain Gordon of the Miami police had punched all the push buttons of the radio and had got only static.Immediately, music pored out noisily.“Do you always play the radio so loud?” snapped Gordon at the pale youth riding handcuffed in the rear seat of the car.“I play it any way I feel like. It’s my convertible,” retorted McGuire.Haledjian turned down the volume. For the rest of the drive to headquarters he thoughtfully reviewed the case.The Chicago National Bank had been held up four days ago, and more than half a million dollars was stolen. One of the holdup men, according to the Chicago Police Department’s informer, was Billy McGuire, a young ex-convict. The informer said McGuire had headed straight for Miami in a green convertible after the crime.That morning the convertible had been spotted in the driveway of a big-time Florida gambler. The gambler swore the youth had been living with him in Miami for two months, and therefore couldn’t have taken part in a Chicago robbery.A search of the gambler’s home disclosed McGuire’s summer clothing in the guest room, and throughout the house a typical amount of underworld luxury, including a connoisseur’s collection of popular records. But none of the stolen money.“You’re wastin’ your time, Gordon,” taunted McGuire. “Hey—tune up the radio. That’s the Dixie Bobcats. Ain’t they the greatest?”“Like popular music, do you?” inquired Haledjian.“I like a lot of things. Especially this Florida climate,” sneered McGuire.“Enjoy it while you can,” answered Haledjian.

Is McGuire guilty of robbing the Chicago National Bank? Explain using CEW.

Claim:

Evidence Warrant

Claim:McGuire is guilty of robbing the Chicago National Bank.

Evidence Warrant

McGuire is described as a “pale youth”, yet he and his big time gambler friend from Florida claimed that McGuire had been “living with him in Miami for two months.”

If McGuire had been living with his friend in Florida for two months, chances are he would have some color-he wouldn’t be pale. He would probably have a tan—or burn.

The push buttons on the radio had not been adjusted to any Florida radio station. All Gordon got when he pushed the buttons was static.

If McGuire had been living in Florida for two months, he would have programed the radio stations in his car at some point. Especially being a music “connoisseur”. The static stations suggest that the radio was tuned to Chicago stations, not Florida.

When Mr. Newman, the new fifth-grade teacher, picked up the papers that his students had piled on the corner of his desk as they finished their exams and left the room, he had no time to look at them. When he examined them later, he saw that these two were almost exactly alike, and it was obvious that one of them had been copied. Since Mr. Newman was new to the class (he was subbing for Mr. Ailing, who was sick), he did not know whether Charles Starrs, who wrote paper A, or Ulric Betcher, who wrote paper B, copied the test.

Can you tell who copied whom? Write your claim down on your chart. Then, list the items of evidence on which you base your decision. Finally, in the warrant column, explain how each piece of evidence supports your claim of who copied from whom.

When Mr. Newman, the new fifth-grade teacher, picked up the papers that his students had piled on the corner of his desk as they finished their exams and left the room, he had no time to look at them. When he examined them later, he saw that these two were almost exactly alike, and it was obvious that one of them had been copied. Since Mr. Newman was new to the class (he was subbing for Mr. Ailing, who was sick), he did not know whether Charles Starrs, who wrote paper A, or Ulric Betcher, who wrote paper B, copied the test.

Can you tell who copied whom? Write your claim down on your chart. Then, list the items of evidence on which you base your decision. Finally, in the warrant column, explain how each piece of evidence supports your claim of who copied from whom.

Claim:

Evidence Warrant

Can you tell who copied whom?

Claim:“B” copied from “A”

Evidence Warrant

A, unlike B, wrote without stopping. B stopped in the middle of words like “because” and “buying”.

B stopping in the middle of common words like “because” and “buying” suggests that s/he needed to have another look at what s/he was copying and paused at those words. Usually, writers do not space out those words.

A crossed out some words (or the beginning of words) as if s/he had a better idea. B wrote without changing his/her mind, but with the same ideas as A.

A’s crossed out words shows some of the thought process that went into the response, and sometimes thinking things through is a messy process.

A’s paper ends nicely without spelling errors, whereas B’s paper ends with the same ideas, but spelling errors.

Because the spelling errors don’t happen until the last lines of the response, this hints that B knew what to say, but can’t always spell correctly. However, there are no other earlier spelling errors, so these seem suspicious.

A’s writing is bigger than B’s but each ends with the same word.

B was copying word-for-word and that also included the formatting of his/her answers. As a person with smaller writing, it would be expected that s/he would go to the edge of the paper when writing, not stop early.

Barbecue Murder

“Bill would have met your train himself, Dr. Haledjian,” said Nora Perkins. “But since I was in town, he asked me to pick you up. He wanted more time to prepare the barbecue.”

Bill Perkins, however, was past worrying about barbecues when Haledjian and his hostess arrived at the house half an hour later. Nora shrieked. Her husband lay on the lawn, a knife protruding from his chest.

A hasty examination indicated to Haledjian that the killing had occurred about an hour before. He studied the scene.

A half cooked steak lay above flameless coals banked in a stone barbecue pit. Upon an iron shelf were a tray of condiments and a long-handled knife and fork.

“Who are you?” demanded Haledjian as a young man burst through the woods.“Ed Magden. My house is about a hundred yards back there. I heard a shriek—what’s

happened? “Where were you an hour ago?” inquired Haledjian.

“Over at the boat yard. I’d just entered my driveway when I heard a shriek,” replied Magden. “Here—what’s this?”

Magden pointed to a metallic object partly buried under the coals. With a quick stride, he reached the pit, thrust in his hand, and pulled out a charred earring.

“Why, it’s mine,” gasped Nora. Suddenly her expression hardened. “Ed Magden, you hated Bill. What are you trying to do?”

“You hated him more than anyone,” snapped Ed Magden“You hated enough to kill,” Haledjian said to--

Who was Haledjian talking to? How did he know that person was guilty? Explain using CEW.

Claim:Haledjian was talking to Ed Magden.

Evidence Warrant

Ed said that he just arrived, yet he almost immediately saw something in the barbecue pit and “With a quick stride, he reached the pit, thrust in his hand, and pulled out a charred earring.”

If he had just arrived, as he claimed, how would he know that the barbecue pit coals were cool enough for him to put his hand in among them? Only someone who knew that Bill had been dead and the barbecue was cool would have done that. The earring was planted to throw suspicion on Nora.