Argument: Year-Round School

Assertion/Claim (Topic Sentence) = Main Idea

• School should be held year-round.

Evidence -Concrete Detail:

• Having year-round school would permit teachers to plan more meaningful lessons through which to engage their students in topics that might capture and hold their attentions.
• Commentary 1: Within my classes, the percentage of boys exceeds that of girls, so I need to utilize topics that would capture the attention of females and an abundance of males.
• Commentary 2: With the extra time built in between the terms (six-week, nine-week terms), teachers could share resources and ideas, such as videos, songs, and topics of interests.
• Students would retain more....Year-round school would also increase student retention of the skills needed to succeed in "real life."
• Commentary 1: Because of the shorter breaks between terms, students will retain more of the skills being taught as teachers continue to reinforce or re-teach the Arkansas Frameworks to ensure their students' mastery of such skills.
• Commentary 2: Such retention would also ensure enhanced academic success as students' grades should now reflect what they know and not what they have forgotten.

Opposing Claims/They Say:

• The BHS 11th Grade argues that this idea is a "horrible," "should-never-be-spoken-of-again" proposal.
• Some of them think that going to school year-around "is more stressful" than the traditional current school calendar.

My Rebuttal/I Say:

• Although I agree with these students up to a point, I cannot accept their overall conclusion that this new arrangement of the days would cause them such trauma.

My Paragraph
School should be held year around. Having year-round school would permit teachers to plan more meaningful lessons through which to engage their students in topics that might capture and hold their attentions. Within my classes, the percentage of boys exceeds that of girls, so I need to utilize topics that would capture the attention of females and an abundance of males. With the extra time built in between the terms (six-week, nine-week terms), teachers could share resources and ideas, such as videos, songs, and topics of interests. Another reason to support year-round school is that this type of school calendar would also increase student retention of the skills needed to succeed in "real life." Because of the shorter breaks between terms, students will retain more of the skills being taught as teachers continue to reinforce or re-teach the Arkansas Frameworks to ensure their students' mastery of such skills. Such retention would also ensure enhanced academic success as students' grades should now reflect what they know and not what they have forgotten. Not everyone supports such a move. For example, the BHS 11th Grade argues that this idea is a "horrible," "should-never-be-spoken-of-again" proposal. Some of them even think that going to school year-around "is more stressful" than the traditional current school calendar. Although I agree with these students up to a point, I cannot accept their overall conclusion that this new arrangement of the days would cause them such trauma. Thus, the positives far outweigh the negative outcomes of such a school calendar.

My Thinking:
This paragraph is based mainly deductive thinking because of the facts and quotes that are presented.

Source:

• Year Around Schools: Pros and Cons