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Teaching Informative Essays10/1Bell Ringer: Circle the subject, underline the predicate, and label the part of speech of each word in the following sentence: The students deliberately provoked the teacher by throwing paper balls. What does an informative paragraph look like?Discuss with the class topic sentence, supporting details, and closing sentence (3 min)Show paragraph examples and outlines of example paragraphs (3 min)Have students complete outlines of other paragraphs (20 min)Discuss (10 min)Have students rewrite paragraphs in their own words using the outline they created- is there enough information in the outline? Enough detail? (15 min)Show that by using the outline, they can rewrite things into their own words- paraphrasing and summarizing- in order to keep from plagiarizingWhat is plagiarism? Give definitionGive examples (15 min)How do we avoid plagiarism?Plagiarism pledge?10/2Bell Ringer: Vocabulary sentence practice sentences (15 min)How do we paraphrase a sentence or a paragraph?Mini Lesson: Frayer Model (15 min)Give definitionCharacteristicsExamples and non-examples – Give both together and see if students can pick out which is which?Jigsaw- Give pairs of students a paragraph or sentence and ask them to paraphrase it, then show on the board (20 min)How do we quote a sentence or phrase? 10/2Frayer Model mini lesson (10 min)How do we attribute?Give examples- Worksheet?Have students practice (10 min)10/3Bell Ringer: Write down three topics you are interested in. Then, study for vocab quiz and turn in all other bell ringers (10 min)Vocab quiz (15 min)How do we summarize a paragraph or an article?Frayer model mini lesson (15 min)Summarizing jigsawGive students a paragraph and ask them to summarize it in one to two sentences (10 min)Emphasize finding the main ideaShare (15 min)How can we come up with a topic sentence for a paragraph? Yellow cards like Russia’s Last Royal Family – Have students read the essay and then come up with topic sentences for each of the outline paragraphs (remainder of class)10/6Bell Ringer: Grammar practice of some kind (15 min)Yellow card topic sentence activity (15 min)Quoting practice (20 min)Choosing a topic and subtopics (15 min)What is the difference between an introduction, a body paragraph, and a conclusion?Provide handouts with example essays and brief descriptions and discuss (5 min)One example should have hook and thesis labeled, other should notIntroduction has hook and thesis Body paragraphs have evidence, facts, statistics, and other things that support the thesisConclusion restates thesis, sums up paperHave students identify the hook, thesis, and restated thesis in 2nd and third examples (10 min)Give students cut up essays and have them put them together in order (15 min)10/7Bell Ringer: Yellow card activityGrammar quiz (20 min)How do we form a thesis statement in an informative essay?What is a thesis statement? (3 min)Give definitionWhat does a thesis statement include? (3 min)How broad or specific should a thesis statement be? (3 min)Give example essays with thesis statements and discuss what each thesis statement is and how it relates to the rest of the essay (5 min)Give out example essays and have students work together to come up with thesis statements for each essay (Remainder of class)10/8Bell Ringer: Another yellow card activity ( 5 min)Writing thesis statements (10 min)Share a few (5 min)How do we evaluate web sources for credibility? Evaluating internet sources handout – discuss (15 min)Show sources that are credible and sources that are not credible (5 min)Facts and opinions (10 min)What is a good opinion? How can we use opinions in our papers?How can we use Wikipedia? (5 min)How can we find web resources that are relevant to our topic? (5 min)Using good search terms – our thesisFind some tips and tricks for doing researchConstructing support handoutHow can we conduct research effectively? (Remainder of class period)How to take notesMaking note of what is paraphrased, summarized, and quotedTaking notes in an organized fashion- organizing facts by which “reason” or subtopic of thesis statement they go withWhat good notes look like and what bad notes look like10/9Bell Ringer: Grammar? (15 min)Grammar intensive day- Commas, commas, commas10/10Bell Ringer: Turn in bell ringersResearch day (Remainder of class)10/13Bell Ringer: Comma practice (10 min)New vocabulary? (20 min)Research day (Remainder of class)10/14Bell Ringer: Comma practice with vocabulary (10 min)Comma rulesResearch day (Remainder of class)10/15Bell Ringer: Comma practice with vocabulary (15 min)Vocabulary sentences dueMore comma rules (15 min)Research (1 hour)End of class on 10/15 – Notes and sources dueNotes should be:Organized by subtopic – 5 ptsHave notes on 3 subtopics – 3 ptsHave sources clearly given – 2 ptsSources seem credible – 2 ptsBe neat and legible – 4 ptsHave notes of what is paraphrased, summarized, and quoted – 4 pts (20 pts total)10/16Bell Ringer: Pictionary with vocabulary (15 min)How do we write a good hook?Give examples (10 min)Have students write a hook (10 min)What goes in the conclusion? (10 min)Give examples of “food for thought”Cut-up outline activity (15 min)How do we organize our information into an outline? (15 min)Start with topic of each paragraph (subtopics)What does a good outline look like? What does a bad outline look like?Showing how to format an outline in WordStart writing outlines (until end of period)10/17Bell Ringer: Turn in other bell ringers and review for vocab quiz (10 min)Vocab quiz (20 min) – When finished, work on outlinesWriting outlines (remainder of class period)10/20Bell Ringer: Conjunctive adverbs (15 min)New Vocabulary (15 min)How do we transition smoothly from one paragraph to another? (10 min)Transition worksheet? At least the front of itHow do we turn an outline into a rough draft? (15 min)What does a good rough draft look like? MLA Format10/21Bell Ringer: Something with commas and vocab (10 min)How do we create a works cited page? (20 min)Rough drafts10/22Bell Ringer: Editor’s checklist (15 min)Working on rough draftsTurn in rough drafts at the end of the period10/23Bell Ringer: Something with vocabulary How do we refine our rough draft to make it into a final draft?Sentence combining, grammar, subject-verb agreement, coordinating conjunctions, comma stuff, editing checklistTaking out ideas that are superfluousFinal Draft due 10/27 at end of class ................
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