Literary Essay - Bend 1
Lesson 1: Essay Boot Camp
When writing an essay, writers start with a clear sense of the structure and then shape the content to fit into that structure, changing it if the content requires them to do so.
Lesson 2: Big Ideas from Details about Characters
To generate ideas for an essay about literature, writers reread a text very closely paying attention to important details about the charters and thinking about the author's intentions.
Lesson 3: Discover What a Character Really Wants
Literary writers think about what motivates characters, and then they use this as the basis of their essays.
Lesson 4: Crafting Claims
Literary writers think over their ideas about the character and then choose one they can craft into a claim that feels worth writing about.
Lesson 5: Evidence
Literary writers reread the text thinking about their claim, searching for the strongest evidence that can support it.
Lesson 6: Studying a Mentor Text
Writers can study published literary essays to learn techniques and structures to use in their own writing.
Lesson 7: Revising Essays
Writers often revise their essays to make sure they explain why and how the evidence supports their claim.
When writing an essay, writers start with a clear sense of the structure and then shape the content to fit into that structure, changing it if the content requires them to do so.
Lesson 2: Big Ideas from Details about Characters
To generate ideas for an essay about literature, writers reread a text very closely paying attention to important details about the charters and thinking about the author's intentions.
Lesson 3: Discover What a Character Really Wants
Literary writers think about what motivates characters, and then they use this as the basis of their essays.
Lesson 4: Crafting Claims
Literary writers think over their ideas about the character and then choose one they can craft into a claim that feels worth writing about.
Lesson 5: Evidence
Literary writers reread the text thinking about their claim, searching for the strongest evidence that can support it.
Lesson 6: Studying a Mentor Text
Writers can study published literary essays to learn techniques and structures to use in their own writing.
Lesson 7: Revising Essays
Writers often revise their essays to make sure they explain why and how the evidence supports their claim.
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Lesson 8: Looking for Themes of a Text
Writers look for themes in texts by identifying and analyzing the problems that characters face and the lessons they learn.
Lesson 9: Drafting
When writers sit down to draft, they often draft quickly, piecing together the necessary parts and using everything they know.
Lesson 10: First Impressions and Closing Remarks
Writers begin their essays with a statement about life and then move into their text-based claim, focusing on the particular story they are writing about. Then they make sure they end their essays with power and voice, leaving their reader with a strong final impression.
Lesson 11: Quoting Texts
Writers use quotations from the text to support their ideas, choosing just key parts of the quote and showing how it supports their thinking.
Lesson 12: Editing
Writers can learn about editing conventions by studying mentor texts.
Writers look for themes in texts by identifying and analyzing the problems that characters face and the lessons they learn.
Lesson 9: Drafting
When writers sit down to draft, they often draft quickly, piecing together the necessary parts and using everything they know.
Lesson 10: First Impressions and Closing Remarks
Writers begin their essays with a statement about life and then move into their text-based claim, focusing on the particular story they are writing about. Then they make sure they end their essays with power and voice, leaving their reader with a strong final impression.
Lesson 11: Quoting Texts
Writers use quotations from the text to support their ideas, choosing just key parts of the quote and showing how it supports their thinking.
Lesson 12: Editing
Writers can learn about editing conventions by studying mentor texts.
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Lesson 13: Beginning to Compare and Contrast
To compare and contrast, writers notice the similarities and differences between their subjects, and then categorize their observations into patterns or ideas for an essay.
Lesson 14: Comparing and Contrasting Themes across Texts
To write compare-and-contrast essays, writers think about the similarities and differences among themes of several texts.
Lesson 15: Revision Work
Writers use what they know about essay writing, as well as other resources to revise their compare-and-contrast essays.
Lesson 16: Identifying Run-Ons and Sentence Fragments
Writers fine-tune their writing by finding and fixing run-ons and sentence fragments.
Lesson 17: Celebration!
Writers share their completed essays with an audience!
To compare and contrast, writers notice the similarities and differences between their subjects, and then categorize their observations into patterns or ideas for an essay.
Lesson 14: Comparing and Contrasting Themes across Texts
To write compare-and-contrast essays, writers think about the similarities and differences among themes of several texts.
Lesson 15: Revision Work
Writers use what they know about essay writing, as well as other resources to revise their compare-and-contrast essays.
Lesson 16: Identifying Run-Ons and Sentence Fragments
Writers fine-tune their writing by finding and fixing run-ons and sentence fragments.
Lesson 17: Celebration!
Writers share their completed essays with an audience!