Essential Questions:
1. Why do writers often turn to nature as a medium for their purposes?
2. How is the context of an author’s life reflected in his/her works?
A. Go over requirements for on-demand writing test.
1. Stand Alone Prompt (choose between 2) for 40 minutes
2. Argumentative for 90 minutes (1st, 4th, 5th, and 7th periods)
B. Go over the definition of each type of writing.
C. Go over rubric.
D. Examine a sample prompt for informative requirement.
Use the planning template.
E. Examine a sample prompt for argumentative requirement.
Analyze a sample response.
Use the argumentative graphic organizer.
F. Go over procedures for poetry literature circles (running record and poetry analysis template)
1st, 4th, 5th, and 7th periods: Go over poetry analysis template.
G. Poetry Literature Circles (Coleridge's "Come, Come Thou Bleak December Wind"; Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"; Shelley's "To Night"; Blake's "Night"; Keats' "To Autumn"; Clare's "First Love")
1. Why do writers often turn to nature as a medium for their purposes?
2. How is the context of an author’s life reflected in his/her works?
A. Go over requirements for on-demand writing test.
1. Stand Alone Prompt (choose between 2) for 40 minutes
2. Argumentative for 90 minutes (1st, 4th, 5th, and 7th periods)
B. Go over the definition of each type of writing.
C. Go over rubric.
D. Examine a sample prompt for informative requirement.
Use the planning template.
E. Examine a sample prompt for argumentative requirement.
Analyze a sample response.
Use the argumentative graphic organizer.
F. Go over procedures for poetry literature circles (running record and poetry analysis template)
1st, 4th, 5th, and 7th periods: Go over poetry analysis template.
G. Poetry Literature Circles (Coleridge's "Come, Come Thou Bleak December Wind"; Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"; Shelley's "To Night"; Blake's "Night"; Keats' "To Autumn"; Clare's "First Love")