Objective: I can write an introduction to my essay by following the steps in the essay organizer and consulting with my neighbor.
BW: Read the exemplar paragraph of an introduction. Write down the pivot or transition sentence in your notebook.
Activities:
- Share Out: What is the transition sentence? What is the purpose of the sentences immediately after the quote? What is the specific purpose of this transition sentence as it relates to the text?
- Share Out: What is the transition sentence in the next exemplar? What is the metaphor that connects theme of greed in Shakespeare’s play to this theme in Gatsby’s novel? Miller’s play? etc.
- Promethean Board: Review the steps of writing an introduction from the essay organizer. Make connections with the previous discussion.
- Independent Study: Identify a quote that provides evidence of a theme or main idea you are developing in your own essay.
- Independent Study: Apply the steps of the organizer to write a rough draft of your introduction.
- Promethean Board: Review aloud the steps for writing a conclusion. will be read aloud. Each step will be matched with the respective sentences of the sample conclusion.
- Independent Study: Each students will write a rough draft of his/her conclusion.
- Reminder: Bring a book for SSR. Also, if you have not completed the rough draft of your counterargument-rebuttal paragraph or have not completed the two rewrites for body paragraphs 1 and 2, tutoring is available after school today. No work on the essay is to be taken home.