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Lesson 4

We will begin writing the body paragraphs for the Culminating Task.

Lesson Goals

  • Can I revisit, refine, and revise my understanding, knowledge, and work based on discussions with others and feedback and review by myself and others?

  • Can I develop and clearly communicate a meaningful and defensible claim that represents a valid, evidence-based analysis?

  • Can I sequence and group sentences and paragraphs and use devices, techniques, descriptions, reasoning, evidence, and visual elements to establish coherent, logical, and well-developed narratives, explanations, and arguments?

Texts

There are no texts for this Lesson.

Materials

Tools

Editable Google Docs

Activity 1: Read – Write

We will review what we have written and determine what should logically follow for our readers.

Step 1

Read the paragraph you wrote. To what extent did you establish a controlling idea or message? What can you do to improve your writing to convey the controlling idea more clearly?

Continue writing. What else does your reader need to know?

This is a good time to review the notes taken throughout the unit and refer to what other authors have done. If you started writing in a similar way as one of the authors read this unit, what did they do next?

Step 2

Review your Vocabulary Journal. Identify significant words that you would like to incorporate into your response to the Culminating Task.

Activity 2: Read – Discuss – Listen

We will discuss our first draft with a partner.

Meet with a partner. Trade and read drafts.

Explain what you understand to be the core message of your partner’s draft, and confirm with your partner if that is the message they were trying to convey.

Reread your partner’s draft, this time to analyze where your partner makes appeals to ethos, pathos, or logos. Respond to the following question:

  1. To what extent does your partner strike a balance between ethos, pathos, and logos? How might this be improved for greater impact or effect?

Discuss feedback with your partner, noting where you see evidence of ethos, pathos, and logos and where you think the draft would benefit from incorporating those rhetorical appeals.