Current Unit: Baby Literary Essay Unit
Students are learning:
- How to Structure an Essay about their Stories
- Stating what book they are writing about, stating their opinion/thesis, providing evidence, revising to include transition words, and include an ending
- How to Raise the Level of their Literary Essays
- Explaining characters traits or lessons learned and support their opinion/thesis with strong evidence from the text, using checklists to revise and set goals for themselves to make their writing stronger, study relationships between characters (thinking about what's interesting or unusual about their relationship), flash drafting (composing an essay quickly), crafting strong introductions, using lots of evidence from multiple points in a story to support their thesis, crafting strong conclusions,
- Use What they Learned to Write about Any Text
- Applying their knowledge to draft an essay about non-fiction text