Teacher Name/Collaborative Group Freshmen Composition I

Week of: November 4th- November 8th

Unit Details:
Desired Results--What do we want students to know and do?

Essential Standard(s)- Demonstrate rhetorical flexibility through writing and revising a variety of texts in multiple genres and for a variety of
college-level audiences and purposes. Students should reflect upon the writing process and themselves as writers.

Learning Target(s)/Objective(s) in Student Friendly Language-

I can demonstrate rhetorical flexibility through writing and revising of the Rhetorical Analysis Paper.
I can reflect upon the writing process and myself as a writer.

Evidence-How will we know they learned?

Assessment(s) of Learning Targets-Formative and Summative

Formative: Students will participate in Peer Review with peers and will be allowed to revise their papers before submitting the polished draft.

Summative: Narrative Paper- For this assignment, you will write your own “This I Believe” essay. Consider a specific moment when you formed a
belief or a previous belief of yours was tested or changed. Then, write a narrative essay sharing your experience and your belief. Consider your “I
believe” statement your thesis and your experience, the evidence. For this exercise to be meaningful, you must make it wholly your own.

Learning Plan--Plan for instruction, intervention, and extension.

 Monday Tuesday/Wednesday Thursday/Friday
11/4 11/5-11/6 11/7-11/8

Direct Instruction/Modeling Direct Instruction/Modeling Direct Instruction/Modeling

(I Do): (I Do): (I Do):
● ASU Database ● Developing the Thesis ● Norming Argumentative Paper
● Students will Complete the Pre- ● Review homework reading
Conference Questions.
Guided Practice/Group Work
Guided Practice/Group Work
(We Do):
(We Do):
● Evaluating Sources Guided Practice/Group Work ● ASU Database
○ Using Sources effectively (We Do):
● Students will continue to conduct
● Informational Source research.

Independent Work
(You Do) Independent Work Independent Work (You Do)
● Organization Handout (You Do)
● ZERO DRAFT DAY ●
● Tentative Outline Organization Handout
● Students will spend the class period
working quietly on your drafts. I ● Tentative Outline
will visit with each student
Homework:Homework:Read Chapter
individually.
11(Arguments) “Choosing an Appropriate Style”
and “Organizing and Drafting Your Argument” in
Writing Today (p.190-194).
Homework: Continue to work on your paper.

Intervention: Intervention: Intervention:

● Feed back ● Feedback ● Feedback
● Writer’s conferences ● Writer’s conferences ● Writer’s conferences