Novel+Expertise+Week+2+Lesson+Plans

 ** Novel Expertise Unit Plan ** **Week 2** ** Monday, day 6: **   **Tuesday, day 7:**   **Wednesday, day 8:**   **Thursday, day 9:**   **·** Free-write: “When I feel oppressed, I feel…” o Encourage students to use adjectives, similes, metaphors. · 10 minutes in regular groups. · 20 minutes in mixed book groups. · Remind students that Monday is the first library day. o Remind students they will need print and Online sources and remind them of the techniques you talked about yesterday.
 * Free-write: What kind(s) of oppression take place in your novel? Who promotes or participates in the oppression?
 * Turn in and discuss “biographies.”
 * Does the information you found about your author reveal itself in your novel?
 * Why would this author discuss these issues in this way?
 * Pass out [[file:Structure And Component Guidelines.doc]].
 * Explain that the handout is designed to help answer questions about the essay. It is designed to share what the teacher expects from students and to help students understand formatting guidelines.
 * Students spend the remainder of the day in discussion groups.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Monitor, try to be as hands-off as possible.
 * Homework:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Read Structure And Component Guidelines for tomorrow’s prewriting activity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Read one or two short critical essays to help model essay writing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[[file:Novel Expertise, Catcher In The Rye.doc]] and [[file:Novel Expertise Love's Lost Words.doc]]; (or any of your own choosing, perhaps an old student essay).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">These Web sites may help with tomorrow’s discussion of essay writing:
 * ***** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">[|**Goshen College**] (includes text examples), <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|**UC Davis**] **,** [|**Western Michigan University**]**.**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">See also //They Say/I Say// by Graff and Birkenstein.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Read and take notes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Free-write: open topic.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Prewriting activity:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Talk about critical essays.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Have students underline the thesis, organizing sentence, and topic sentences (ideas from Structure And Component Guidelines).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Discuss how the authors chose their topics and what techniques they use to prove their theses.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Discuss which parts of the essay are most effective and why.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Discuss word choice and how punctuation helps make ideas clear
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Generally go over the Structure And Component Guidelines handout.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Spend remainder of class in discussion groups.
 * Homework:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Read and take notes!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Quiz; same format as day 3.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Group discussion.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Spend a few minutes at each group; check in with students about their paper topics.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Spend last 10-15 minutes of class reading.
 * Homework:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Read and take notes!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Free-write: open topic.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Discuss Online and print research techniques.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Group discussion.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Remind students that books must be finished tomorrow.
 * Homework:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Read and take notes!
 * Friday, day 10: **
 * Homework:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Work on refining paper topic, brainstorm final project ideas.

Week 3 Lesson Plans **