Notes to Narratives
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Each of the following lessons includes a lesson plan, rationale, explanation of assessment and lesson extensions, an anotated bibliography, and a lesson reflection, as well as other lesson materials.
Minilesson 1
Introduction
Creating mood within personal narratives is important towards creating an effective connection with the audience and portraying meaning. Students will be able to use mood to develop the portayal of an experience.
This lesson involves identifying effective mood within personal narratives and practicing the creation of mood within writing on a personal experience.
This lesson is based in a unit on narrative writing in which the final summative assessment is a personal narrative.
Minilesson 2
Introduction
Paraphrasing ensures that important points and details are clearly expressed. Through paraphrasing, text is also reworded so that plagiarism does not occur and it serves as another way of including information within essays without excessively using direct quotes. Students will be able to vary their integration of source information within their papers after this lesson.
This lesson involves the practice of paraphrasing by rewording, condensing, and reformating original source quotes.
This lesson is baed in a unit on expository and informational writing in which the summative assessment is an informational essay.
Minilesson 3
Introduction
Learning to write a three point thesis statement serves as a good introduction to argument writing because the thesis can serve as an outline for a student's essay and can help guide their paper. Students will be able to state arguments clearly and explain what evidence from the source supports their argument. This introduces the general idea of what an argument is, and the fact that it needs to be supported with proof from a source.
This lesson focuses on making an argument about a "source", which could be a piece of media, literature, video, etc. The lesson includes outlining what an argument statement is, what evidences that support that argument look like, and how to combine argument and evidences in a thesis statement that guides an argumentative paper.
This lesson is based in a unit on argumentative writing where the summative assessment is a literary argument paper.
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Reflection Letter
The following document is a reflective letter discussing my experience in a "Teaching Composition" class. I learned about myself as writer and teacher of writing. My response to the course and my ideas about how I would teach my future classes are outlined in the letter.