Literar y Essay ESSAY BOOT CAMP Literary Essay

Literar y Essay

ESSAY BOOT CAMP Literary Essay: Session 1

Learning Target v. I CAN… ◦write an essay that uses a clear sense of structure.

Connection Ugh! Why essays you say? Essay writing is a skill that will take you places. So, get ready for Essay Boot Camp!!! This is no ordinary mini-lesson. Today, you will work together on a quick essay just for practice.

Teaching Point Today, I want to teach you that when writing an essay, it can help to start with a clear sense of structure in which you’ll be writing, and then you almost pour your content into that structure, changing the structure around if the content requires you to do so.

Teaching/Modeling Turn & Talk: Quickly retell it to each other. Work in cluster, pairs, whatever. Go! Pay particular attention to the third little pig, because I think he’s going to be our focus. Keep talking.

Teaching/Modeling So the story goes that each of the pigs built themselves their own home; one out of straw, one out of sticks, and the third pig, one out of bricks. Then the wolf came, and he called…what? And one after another, each of the pigs answered… Imagine calling that out when you are third and only remaining pig, after you’ve watched your brothers get eaten!! That third pig is no wimp, is he? Do you recall what the third pig does at the end?

Teaching/Modeling So writers, to write an essay, you need an idea that is important to you. You could take a week coming up with an idea, but remember, you’re writing this whole essay in one day, so I’m going to shorten that part of the process by suggesting you write an essay using the claim or thesis. Claim or Thesis:

Teaching/Modeling Now, whenever you write anything, it helps to think about the structure you will use. When you write stories, you take on the structure of a timeline or a story mountain, but to write an essay, you start with a structure that is not a timeline but an outline. One of the simplest ways to outline, to organize an

Boxes-and-Bullets Plan Claim or Thesis: • Your reasons : • •

Teaching/Modeling The Third Little Pig is an admirable character because… • • • Be careful your categories must not overlap. Example: He’s brave and he stands up to evil —those are the same! Turn and Talk: Discuss three reasons why with a partner.

Teaching/Modeling The Third Little Pig is an admirable character because… • He works hard. (reason one) • He is brave. (reason two) • He outwits his enemy. (reason three)

Teaching/Modeling The Third Little Pig is an admirable character because… A: He works hard. (reason one) B: He is brave. (reason two) C: He outwits his enemy. (reason three) Introduction: The Third Little Pig, in the fairy tale “The Three Little Pigs, ” is an especially admirable character because he works hard, he is brave, and especially because he outwits his enemy.

Teaching/Modeling v. Okay, we have a claim and ways it’s supported, box and bullets. That’s our structure, our plan. v. Now you pour your content into that structure. To do this, imagine what you would write if you had time to do so by writing-in-the-air our first body paragraph. v. Think of scenes or details from “The Three Little Pigs” that you can use to support to illustrate, or to give an example of the fact that the third little

Teaching/Modeling v. Now, we need to draft our first body paragraph: Start with the topic sentence (your claim and first reason). Then your evidence or examples (use a sentence starter such as for example…). v. Turn & Talk: Discuss a possible paragraph using the sentence starters below. v. One reason why the Third Little Pig is admirable is that…

Teaching/Modeling v. After citing an example, you need to “unpack” it, or analyze how it fits with your point. So you need to add something like “This shows…” or “This illustrates…” and then explain how the example fits the claim about the third little pig. And repeat your claim. v. Then you will need to write a transition that gets you started on the next body paragraph, using terms like “Another reason…” or “Although one

Teaching/Modeling The Third Little Pig, in the fairy tale “The Three Little Pigs, ” is an especially admirable character because he works hard, he is brave, and especially because he outwits his enemy. The first reason that the Third Little Pig is admirable is that he works very hard.

Teaching/Modeling The Third Little Pig, in the fairy tale “The Three Little Pigs, ” is an especially admirable character because he works hard, he is brave, and especially because he outwits his enemy. The first reason that the Third Little Pig is admirable is that he works very hard. For example, he builds his own home out of bricks, which must have taken an extra amount of work. He carried all those bricks to one place, laid them one by one on top of each other, added in

Teaching/Modeling The Third Little Pig, in the fairy tale “The Three Little Pigs, ” is an especially admirable character because he works hard, he is brave, and especially because he outwits his enemy. The first reason that the Third Little Pig is admirable is that he works very hard. For example, he builds his own home out of bricks, which must have taken an extra amount of work. He carried all those bricks to one place, laid them one by one on top of each other, added in the cement. He made one wall, another, another. He even built a roof and a chimney. This shows that the Third Little Pig works hard because he put a lot of time and

Teaching/Modeling Debrief: v. Did you see the way we started by naming our claim and several supports for it? v. Then, in your first body paragraph, you repeated the claim and the first way it is supported. v. Then you told the story of an incident in the story that supports that claim and closed the paragraph by saying a bit about how the example supports the claim. v Lastly, you restated what you were aiming to

The Third Little Pig, in the fairy tale “The Three Little Pigs, ” is an especially admirable character because he works hard, he is brave, and especially because he outwits his enemy. The first reason that the Third Little Pig is admirable is that he works very hard. For example, he builds his own home out of bricks, which must have taken an extra amount of work. He carried all those bricks to one place, laid them one by one on top of each other, added in the cement. He made one wall, another, another. He even built a roof and a chimney. This shows that the Third Little Pig works hard because he put a lot of time and effort into building a sturdy house. Another reason that the Third Little Pig is admirable is that he is brave.

The Third Little Pig, in the fairy tale “The Three Little Pigs, ” is an especially admirable character because he works hard, he is brave, and especially because he outwits his enemy. The first reason that the Third Little Pig is admirable is that he works very hard. For example, he builds his own home out of bricks, which must have taken an extra amount of work. He carried all those bricks to one place, laid them one by one on top of each other, added in the cement. He made one wall, another, another. He even built a roof and a chimney. This shows that the Third Little Pig works hard because he put a lot of time and effort into building a sturdy house. Another reason that the Third Little Pig is admirable is that he is brave. For instance, he watched a giant angry wolf with big teeth blow down his brothers’ houses and eat them up but still, when the Wolf came to the Third Little Pig’s house this pig was brave. He didn’t run and hide. Instead when the Wolf called, “Little Pig, let me come in, ” the Third Little Pig called out, “Not by

The Third Little Pig, in the fairy tale “The Three Little Pigs, ” is an especially admirable character because he works hard, he is brave, and especially because he outwits his enemy. The first reason that the Third Little Pig is admirable is that he works very hard. For example, he builds his own home out of bricks, which must have taken an extra amount of work. He carried all those bricks to one place, laid them one by one on top of each other, added in the cement. He made one wall, another, another. He even built a roof and a chimney. This shows that the Third Little Pig works hard because he put a lot of time and effort into building a sturdy house. Another reason that the Third Little Pig is admirable is that he is brave. For instance, he watched a giant angry wolf with big teeth blow down his brothers’ houses and eat them up but still, when the Wolf came to the Third Little Pig’s house this pig was brave. He didn’t run and hide. Instead when the Wolf called, “Little Pig, let me come in, ” the Third Little Pig called out, “Not by

Teaching/Modeling v. Fabulous! I don’t want to say another word. You are going to flash-draft an entire essay in your writer's notebooks on the admirable character, the Third Little Pig. v. Feel free to borrow the reasons and evidence we’ve shared in class or to make up your own, but here is the thing – you will only have twenty-five minutes to write the whole essay, so get started!!! v. Challenge: Write about how the Big Bad Wolf is

Mid-Workshop Teaching: Essay Body Paragraphs Have Beginnings, Middles, and Ends v. I know you know that stories have beginning, middles, and ends. When writing an essay, each body paragraph also has a beginning, a middle, and an end. v. The beginning of the paragraph will usually contain a transition that hooks the new reason to the others and to the claim. The middle will need to reference the story with details, and the end will need to unpack the reference, the evidence, perhaps by saying, “This shows …” or “This illustrates…” and certainly by restating the idea you are writing about. Reread and make sure you are writing in paragraphs

Sharing: For share today, will you and your partner look at one person’s essay or the other’s and annotate it, almost as if you are the teaching making comments. Note things the essayist has done well, and jot suggestions, because after you annotate your essay, you’ll rewrite it. I know we don’t have time in school, but you can do that at home. Get started.

Homework: Tonight, finish annotating your essay, noting in the margins and with stars and underlines and arrows and happy and sad faces – any marks you want – what you think about the essay. Then write a new draft a fabulous draft, of the essay.