Writing Instruction--Mini Lesson Preview

Writing Instruction--Mini Lesson Preview

Previewing text, selecting the best evidence, and properly embedding quotes

Open Ended

Warm-Up: Using complete sentences, inform me about a topic of your choice.

Ex. You can inform me about yourself, who you are as a person, this school, a celebrity, a trend, a recent funny experience, something frustrating you, your grades, etc. Just be INFORMATIVE in your tone. <3

Standard

LAFS.910.W.1.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. 

Multiple Select

Select our objectives for today. Hint: Select all of them!

• Preview two or more different texts for useful ideas and concepts

• Select the best evidence to support our main ideas and analysis

• Properly embed quotations while using precise and organized language

Essential Question

How can I quickly locate (and properly embed) useful information to support my analysis on the correlation between the Mars Rover and Jezero Crater?

Previewing a text

• 3-2-1

• Find 3 key details from Source 1 that may be useful for the prompt, 2 illustrations, and 1 quote

Selecting the BEST evidence

Stay on topic. You can usually tell when a chunk of text is about to be off-topic and pointless in relation to the prompt. I will model this process during the lesson.

How to CITE EVIDENCE

• Try these terms!

• If you are introducing your quote and the word before the quotation mark is a verb, such as "writes" "says" "explains" etc. then you need a comma.

• On page three, the author writes, "______"

• According to the author "_______"

Evaluating a Prompt: What do I do?

• It's informational. I need to focus on the Rover itself and some crater when I read both sources.

• My essay will be four paragraphs at least.

• I need to cite from at least 2 of the 3 sources.

Task: Preview Source 1 vs. 2

• Assign one card per source--see picture. You can do this on a word document if needed.

• Jot down the title of source 1 on one card along with the author

• Repeat for card 2.

I do--Modeling how to analyze Source One

I will model for 2 minutes on the timer how to look for evidence that is useful for the prompt. Starting..NOW!

I do

Here, I will model for four minutes how to properly embed a fact, quote, and/or statistic from source one. Starting..NOW

We Do

Putting four minutes on the clock, as a class we will collaborate and discuss useful ideas, quotes, facts, etc. from the article that would be helpful for our essay. Go!

Open Ended

Find one quote that may be useful for the prompt from Source 1! Be sure to properly embed your quote in your response.

For example.

In the article, an astronaut says, "_________________" (Source 1).

Open Ended

Do the same for Source two. Your exit-ticket is to provide at least 2 pieces of evidence that may be useful from Source 2. You should annotate and upload your document by the end of class or turn in your notecard/take a photo of your notecard and upload to Focus.

Open Ended

Find TWO pieces of information that may be useful for the prompt from Source 1! Be sure to properly embed your quote in your response.

For example.

According to Nadia Drake "_________________" (Source 1).

OR

In source one, the author writes, "__________________".

Open Ended

Achieve 3000!

Complete and pass at least 1 article of your choice. Type your score and the name of the article here. Write this on your notecard as well.

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Achieve 3000!

Complete and pass at least 1 article of your choice. Type your score and the name of the article here. Write this on your notecard as well.