If you want your students to be more curious, thoughtful, open-minded, and empathetic - as well as better persuasive writers - this resource bundle is for you.The Big Y is a thinking map for argumentative/persuasive writing that utilizes the fundamentals of formal logic to help students make stronger connections between claims and the evidence used to support them. Students use the Big Y to analyze a claim for its major premise, the guiding principle or belief behind it, and evaluate whether the