Looking at the four types of essays, as well as tools for communicating ideas in written works. Examine ways to evaluate the value of written works.
Tasks:
1. Read sample essays of each of the four common types: personal, expository, argumentative, and analytical. While reading, look for:
a. Formal or informal style
b. Thesis
c. Tone
d. The use of rhetorical devices
e. Bias
f. Reliability (R-E-B-O-C)
g. Satire and/or Parody
2. The thesis
a. Read Common Errors in Writing a Thesis
b. Complete the activity on page 2
3. Transitions
a. Read Transitions Between Paragraphs
b. Complete the activity on page 3
4. Using quotes
a. Read Using Quotes
5. Read Where have all the milkmen, sidewalk knife sharpeners and CBC staff announcers gone? - Michael's essay and fill in the Essay Dissection sheet
6. Read Against Headphones and fill in the Essay Dissection sheet
7. Read It's Time That We End the Equal Pay Myth and fill in the Essay Dissection sheet
8. Writing an argumentative essay assignment
a. Begin with a topic (see assignment sheet for requirements)
b. Create the thesis; the answer to a question about the topic
c. Think of three supports that back up your thesis
d. Find three pieces of evidence to show each of your supports is correct
e. Come up with a conclusion that restates the thesis in a new way, leaving the reader with an idea you want them to take away
f. Create an Interactive Persuasion Map (link below), filling in the boxes with the material you wrote above
g. Using the map from the last step fill in the Essay Outline; you will need to organize the arguments in order (second strongest argument, weakest, strongest) and add transitions between arguments.
h. The essay is almost done: write the first draft; revise and edit as needed
i. Print and submit final copy
Formative Work to Submit:
Where have all the milkmen, sidewalk knife sharpeners and CBC staff announcers gone? - Michael's essay Essay Dissection
Against Headphones Essay Dissection
It's Time That We End the Equal Pay Myth Essay Dissection
Summative Work to Submit:
Expectations Covered:
B1.1, B1.2, B1.3, B1.4, B1.5, B1.6, B1.7, B1.8
B3.1, B3.2, B3.3
B4.1, B4.2
C1.1, C1.2, C1.3, C1.4, C1.5
C2.1, C2.2, C2.3, C2.4, C2.5, C2.6, C2.7
C3.1, C3.2, C3.3, C3.4, C3.5, C3.6, C3.7
C4.1, C4.2, C4.3
Links:
Where have all the milkmen, sidewalk knife sharpeners and CBC staff announcers gone? - Michael's essay (http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/extinct-jobs-teaching-in-the-digital-age-ben-bell-s-bassoons-redrawing-the-middle-east-1.3460123/where-have-all-the-milkmen-sidewalk-knife-sharpeners-and-cbc-staff-announcers-gone-michael-s-essay-1.3460191)
Against Headphones (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/magazine/09FOB-medium-t.html)
It's Time That We End the Equal Pay Myth (www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/04/16/its-time-that-we-end-the-equal-pay-myth)
Interactive Persuasion Map (http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/)