Literature Responses Part VI: The Debater Role & Satisfying the NJASK

While collaborating and co-teaching with Carol, she and I came up with an interesting twist to the Debater Role, which is really just a stripped-down version of the Toulmin method of argumentation.  As it stands, the Debater Role is the Following:

Claim: I believe _________________________
Warrant: because _________________________
Evidence (3):
1. _____________
2. _____________
3. _____________

The small evolution of this could be:

Claim: I believe _________________________
Warrant: because _________________________
Evidence (3):
1. Text to self
2. Text to text
3. Text to world

In this way, evidence is still being proffered by the student, but s/he is also making those important connections that the scorers at the state are looking for when they're reviewing students' responses to writing prompts.