🚨 Teachers everywhere are confuddled … no, downright flabbergasted … by this mysterious “6-7” slang their students keep tossing into captions and conversations. What does it mean? Where does it come from? And why on earth are kids obsessed with it?
Instead of shrugging it off, I decided to turn the enigma into a full-blown argumentative-synthesis essay prompt. And here’s the best part: I Bob Ross the entire thing for my students—annotations, thesis building, intros, body paragraphs, line of reasoning, embedding quotes, sentence variation, rhythm, voice … happy little rhetorical trees everywhere. 🌲✍️
✨ What’s included:
- A color-coded annotation exercise that scaffolds claims, evidence, and reasoning.
- A full source packet (linked in the video description) so students can ground their arguments.
- Every slide from my lesson, ready for you to plug and play tomorrow.
Students pull from at least three of the six sources while also tying the phenomenon back to their own school culture: Why do slang terms like “6-7” (or others) take hold in our communities?
👉 If you’ve ever wished the synthesis essay could feel both rigorous and relevant, this is your masterpiece-in-a-box. I’ve done the painting—your students just get to step back and admire the canvas. 🎨📚
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