Next step will be to come up with a good Outline. Everything in this article is my own work and I ask you do not use my content without giving credit where it is due, this is for any work you use.
Outline
I. Introductory Paragraph
a. Hook: Do you think Common Core is good for schools?
b. Background information: The Common Core state standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. the standards are designed to be relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. With American students fully prepared for the future, our communities will be best positioned to compete successfully in the global economy.
c. Thesis statement: Common Core classes should be terminated because it causes unnecessary stress, more money having to be paid for classes not part of their degree, and time consumption for classes that are not for their intended major/minor.
II. First Body Paragraph
a. Common core is causing students to lose their creative sparks.
b. Intro to a quote/paraphrase
c. “Allowing the Federal Government at the throats of our young people is to disallow children the opportunity to know the unique American experience of liberty in a freewill republic.” –Jim Mullen
d. Explain/analyze quote.e. One more explanation sentence
f. Not only are students losing their creativity, but they are having to learn the same material at the same pace as everyone else which can cause long term learning problems.
III. Second Body Paragraph
a. Long term learning problems can include learning slower than necessary, losing interest in the material being taught, and/or being subject to unnecessary learning disabilities.
b. Intro to a quote/paraphrase
c. “Common Core is a comprehensive plan to dumb down school children so they will be obedient servants of the government and probably to indoctrinate them to accept the leftwing view of America and its history.” –Phyllis Schafly
d. Explain/analyze quote
e. One more explanation sentence
f. Common core not only limits the minds of our students, but the minds of our teachers and their freewill to teach.
IV. Third Body Paragraph
a. With common core comes the limitation of our teachers.
b. Intro to a quote/paraphrase
c. "I don't want to tell you how to do your job, and I don't want you to tell me how to do mine." State Board of Education Member Mary Scott Hunter at a committee meeting on bills to repeal the Common Core and give the Legislature control of curriculum.
d. Explain/analyze quote
e. One more explanation sentence
f. Limiting our teachers can then lead to a system that expects every child and teacher to act like programmed machines.
V. Fourth Body Paragraph
a. Our children are not employees that should be programmed to think, do, and work the same as every other person.
b. Intro to a quote/paraphrase
c. "Only when you're in a factory or an assembly line does standardization lead to excellence." State school board member Betty Peters who voted against the standards in 2010.
d. Explain/analyze quote
e. One more explanation sentence
f. The federal government is controlling every aspect of our children and their doing so through the abundant amount of money they ‘offer’ out.
VI. Fifth Body Paragraph
a. The government is bribing the states so they can gain for federal power.
b. Intro to a quote/paraphrase
c. "The president essentially bribed states into implementation via 'Race to the Top,' offering $4.35 billion taxpayer dollars to participating states, $500 million of which went to Tennessee ... And much like No Child Left Behind, the program promises national testing and a one-size-fits-all education, because, hey, it worked so well the first time." -Ethan Young
d. Explain/analyze quote
e. One more explanation sentence
f. By using their money to control the states the government has force fed “Race to the Top” to the people to justify their actions.
VII. Sixth Body Paragraph
a. The slogan ‘Race to the Top’ is a ploy to make the common person believe that common core is going to push education to the highest standard, but in reality it is just leveling the playing field in public schools.
b. Intro to a quote/paraphrase
c. “My theory on common core is this: politicians' kids go to private schools where they are taught the normal way. With common core in public school, which is where middle class and impoverished kids attend, children going to be a mass increase in dropouts and poor grades. Making it harder for those kids to get into good colleges and get good jobs all the while their kids pass with flying colors because they are not doing common core. Keeping the elite with the elite. Meaning the politicians' kids will continue to be politicians. Common core is a weapon to keep poor people poor. And anyone that can get through it, well that's why they call it 'race to the top', right?"
- Emma Jean Sandy
d. Explain/analyze quote
e. One more explanation sentence
f. Regardless of the reasons the government has pushed common core onto public schools it remains obvious that they are trying to take over where ever they can.
VIII. Conclusion
a. Common Core classes in college should be terminated because it causes unnecessary stress, more money having to be paid for classes not part of their degree, and time consumption from classes that are for you major/minor.
b. Summarizing point 1
c. Summarizing point 2
d. Summarizing point 3
e. Summarizing entire essay
f. Is common core really fair across the board, or is it just a ploy to make us lose our uniqueness?
