Course: College Success Instruction Unit: Six Title of Lesson: Source Material Prep
Learning Objective: •
Connecting Short Story source material to five paragraph essay
Purpose: Exposing students to the next level of college essay, moving away from opinion based essays to essays requiring source material. As a group we will build an essay using material from a short story as the evidence supporting our thesis statement. Class is designed to introduce students to next level of essay not towards mastery.
Topics Covered: •
Source Material
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Short Stories
Activity: •
Read Langston Hughes’ “One Friday Morning”
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Discuss Sample Essay Question
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Write Thesis Statement
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Discuss Source Material in Body Paragraphs
Assessment:
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Spot Questions to assess understanding of “One Friday Morning”
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Thesis Statement Review
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Group Discussion of Source Material in Body Paragraphs