Dear Parents,
We are writing our first in-class
literary essay starting this Wednesday, January 31. The students will be
given 2 class periods to complete this writing. We have been studying a
video on YouTube called the “Paynee Football Club Story”. The students
have been given the transcript as well. Please feel free to view the
video with your students if you’d like to give them some extra guidance.
This past week we’ve talked about how to create a good thesis for your literary
essay. We discussed focusing on who the characters are, what they
learned, or what lesson the author intended to teach the reader (or watcher, in
the case of the video).
For the first literary essay, the main thing that
we’re looking for is if the students can write a good thesis (claim) and have
evidence from the video to back it up. Unlike some previous in-class
writing assignments, the students ARE NOT to have any portion written out ahead
of time. Students are allowed to have an outline and perhaps a copy of
what they would like their thesis to be. However, they are to do all the
actual writing within the two class periods that are being given. After
this assignment, we will go on to write a literary essay about a text of their
choice (which will be selected from a choice of 2-3 stories provided by the
teacher). The final Literary Essay writing assignment will be a cold read
that they’re given of a text and an in-class essay in response to that
text. For this week, if they’re familiar with the idea of a thesis and
the video, they should do just fine on the writing. This will count as a
quiz grade. Please contact me with any questions/concerns.
:) Jenny M-G
Paynee Football Club transcript
http://bradshawbunch.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/0/2/30028231/g5litessay_panyeefootballclubvideotranscript.pdf
Paynee Football Club video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU4oA3kkAWU
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