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.

Now that their individual literary essays are complete, the students will get together with their writing partner this week. We will focus on the lessons learned/theme across two of the short stories we have read in class. With their writing partner, they will co-create an introduction paragraph that includes a summary of both short stories and a claim/thesis statement. They 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. 

See above for an example of the work that the students completed today as they sorted through stories and tried to figure out common themes. 

Homework:

ELA: None

SS: None

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