Lesson Plan

Grade 9 ELA Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 10

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To prepare for the end-of-unit multi-paragraph essay, class members review Rainer Maria Rilke's collection, Letters to a Young Poet, and David Mitchell's Black Swan Green and identify central ideas in both texts. Writers then formulate a claim about a similar centrality to both texts and select evidence they have collected on their worksheets to support their claim.

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CCSS: Designed
Instructional Ideas
  • Provide writers with the rubric, attached to the next lesson, that will be used to evaluate the essay and answer any questions they may have about the criteria
Classroom Considerations
  • The 10th in an 11-lesson unit that uses Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet and David Mitchell's Black Swan Green as anchor texts
  • The lesson presumes class members have experience crafting multi-paragraph, expository essays
Pros
  • The 12-page packet includes the plan, discussion questions and model responses, and the essay assignment sheet
Cons
  • A rubric is not included on the assignment sheet; however, it is included in the next lesson
Common Core