Update for 1/29

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