Students have written literary essays individually based on a
short story read in class. The essays were five paragraph essays with the
following format: opening paragraph containing a summary of short story and a
claim/thesis about the protagonist’s main character trait, three body
paragraphs and a conclusion paragraph starting to hint at the lesson learned in
the story. The opening paragraph’s claim states the reasons/ideas/evidence that
is shown in the text.
After their individual literary essays were completed, the
students got together with their writing partner. We focused on lessons
learned/theme across two of the short stories. With their writing partner, they are creating an introduction paragraph that includes a summary of both short stories
and a claim/thesis statement. They then will create three topic sentences for their
body paragraphs (again showing evidence of backing up their claim). On a tri-fold piece of paper, they will write
their topic sentences and create a visual showing the evidence from the text,
in place of writing out the rest of the body paragraph. The back of this paper will include their opening and conclusion paragraphs.
Homework:
Reading: Latin Stem Quiz 12/4/17
Math: R & P 3.2.4 #128-132 pg 155
Science: Corrections due Friday AND Reading Log due Friday for November- 400 reading minutes and parent signature
