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Lesson 9

We will form an evidence-based claim and write a three-paragraph response to the following question:

How did the photojournalism of Charles Moore and others define the American Civil Rights Movement and serve as a catalyst for social and political change?

Lesson Goals

Reading and Knowledge

  • Gather and Organize Evidence: How well do I gather and organize relevant and sufficient evidence to demonstrate my understanding of the texts and topics of this section, as well as the task posed by the question in the Section Diagnostic?
  • Analyze Relationships: How well do I recognize and interpret important relationships among key details and ideas within texts and the events that were part of the historical context surrounding those details and ideas?

Writing

  • Form Claims: How well do I develop and clearly communicate a meaningful and defensible claim regarding the influence of photojournalism during the civil rights era using valid, evidence-based analysis?
  • Develop Ideas: How well do I use devices, techniques, descriptions, reasoning, evidence, and visual elements to support and elaborate on coherent and logical explanations?

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Activity 1: Write

We will use the organizational plan we have developed to draft a three-paragraph response to the task question.

Review your organizational plan that you developed in the previous lesson. It should include three topic sentences, one of which is your central claim, and a list of quotations and other evidence you will use to explain and support each of your main ideas.

Using that plan, draft three well written paragraphs, one for each of your topic sentences/claims. Remember that a topic sentence often is the first sentence in a paragraph, but can also sometimes appear in the middle or at the end as a concluding statement.

Think about how you will integrate and explain the evidence you have planned to use. If it is a direct quotation, think about how to work it into your own sentences and make it fit smoothly in the paragraph.

Activity 2: Read – Write

We will work on transitional strategies to help us better connect our ideas when combining body paragraphs.

Review the three paragraphs you have drafted for your essay. Ask yourself the following questions:

  1. What is the connection among my ideas?

  2. Are my three claims organized in the best way? If not, how should I reorganize them?

  3. What three transitions could show relationships among these three ideas and unify my three paragraph essay?

Add transitional sentences or words to your draft, so that it is a unified piece of writing that someone can easily follow.

Activity 3: Listen – Discuss – Write

We will work with a partner, giving and receiving feedback as we prepare to finalize our three-paragraph response for this section.

Step 1

Take turns with a partner reading aloud the three paragraph response you drafted and the connections you have made among ideas. As you listen to your partner share, make notes on a separate sheet of paper regarding the following questions, so you can provide feedback to your partner:

  1. Overall, were you able to follow your partner’s ideas, claims, and support of claims?

  2. As a listener, did you ever get lost? Did the ideas flow in a logical order and progress from paragraph to paragraph? How? Or, why not?

  3. Did you need more information at any point⁠—or better connections between ideas?

Step 2

Discuss the feedback from your partner and make any revisions that may be needed.

Activity 4: Write – Discuss

We will reflect on our work on the Section Diagnostic and assess how prepared we are for the Culminating Task.

Step 1

Choose at least three of the questions below regarding the Section Diagnostic and respond to them in your Learning Log:

  1. How well did you take necessary action to prepare for the task?

  2. What went well for you during this task?

  3. What did you struggle with during this task? How did you push through these struggles?

  4. How well did you actively focus your attention during this independent task?

  5. How well did you develop and use an effective and efficient process to maintain workflow during this task?

  6. What would you do differently during the next Section Diagnostic?

Step 2

Now find your Culminating Task Checklist. Think about the knowledge you have gained and the skills you have practiced thus far in the unit. Use the Culminating Task Checklist to do the following:

  • Add or refine any skills and content knowledge required for the Culminating Task.

  • Evaluate how well you are mastering the skills and knowledge required for the Culminating Task.

Step 3

Review the Central Question of the unit:

How do images change the world?

Discuss the following question with a small group:

  1. How has your response to the question evolved, deepened, or changed?

Write down your response in your Learning Log.