Transcript Do Now - Renton School District

DO NOW
• Get out your Springboard book and turn to page 94.
LEARNING TARGETS/OBJECTIVES
• IWBAT analyze how a writer uses the compare and contrast structure to
communicate ideas.
• IWBAT explain
UNPACKING EA1
What do students need to know/be able to do?
• Ideas about the book:
• Utopia, dystopia, Hero’s Journey
• Characterization, change + compare to another character
• Analyze how conflict leads to character changes, which reveals the
theme (apply Hero’s Journey)
• Expository Writing Structure:
• Introduction, body paragraphs, conclusion, transitions
• Compare/contrast structure
• Appropriate voice, active voice, literary terms, precise language
• Using strongest evidence-TQLC
FAHRENHEIT WRITING PROMPTS
(YOU WILL CHOOSE ONE!)
• Prompt 1: Think about the protagonist’s characteristics, what he achieved, and how
he changed by the end of the story. Contrast the protagonist with another
character from his society.
• Prompt 2: Think about the final stage in the Hero’s Journey: the Crossing, or Return
Threshold. What does the hero learn about life as a result of the Journey (theme)?
• Prompt 3: Write an essay that explains how the protagonist (hero) changes as a
result of conflict with his dystopian society (Road of Trials), and explain how this
change connects to the novel’s theme (the Crossing, or Return Threshold).
EXPOSITORY WRITING
• Expository writing: writing to explain or define a concept or
idea.
• There are many types of expository writing:
• Cause-and-Effect Essays
• Newspaper articles
• Magazine articles
• Compare and contrast essays- a rhetorical strategy and
method of organization where the writer examines the
similarities and differences between two people, places,
ideas and things.
HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR OWN
COMPARE AND CONTRAST WRITING
• Before you write an essay, you should always have some sort of a pre-write.
• The examples below shows 2 ways a writer could choose to organize their writing.
They are comparing and contrasting reptiles to mammals.
Subject by Subject Organization
Feature by feature organization
Discuss all the feature of one
subject and then all the features
from the other subject.
Select a feature common to both
subjects and then discuss each
subject’s feature. Then go on to
the next.
Subject A: Mammals
- Feature 1: Habitat
- Feature 2: Reproduction
- Feature 3: Physiology
Subject B: Reptiles
- Feature 1: Habitat
- Feature 2: Reproduction
- Feature 3: Physiology
Feature 1: Habitat
- Subject A: Mammals
- Subject B: Reptiles
Feature 2: Reproduction
- Subject A: Mammals
- Subject B: Reptiles
Feature 3: Physiology
- Subject A: Mammals
- Subject B: Reptiles
• What are the
differences
between the 2
structures?
• Why would an
author choose
one over the
other?
WHAT GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
COULD YOU USE?
• What graphic organizers could we use to help us
brainstorm and generate ideas for a compare and
contrast essay?
• Make mini-versions of the organizers in your notes!
READING A COMPARE AND
CONTRAST READING
• Last quarter we studied poems and
informational pieces about Abraham Lincoln
and Frederick Douglass.
• Today we are going to read a text that
compares and contrasts Ulysses S. Grant, the
general of the Union Army and Robert E Lee
the general of the Confederate Army.
HEROIC ATTRIBUTES
Ulysses S. Grant, Leader of the Union Army
• “Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for
war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.”
Robert E. Lee, Leader of the Confederate Army
• “Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things.
You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.”
READ BY YOURSELF, THEN WITH
YOUR PARTNER
On the SECOND READ:
• Annotate the text by marking the similarities and
differences in each paragraph.
• Highlight the features you see the author comparing
and contrasting through out the piece.
AFTER READING
• Skim back over your annotations and make a general outline of the text’s
organizational structure.
• Start with Paragraphs 1-3: Introduction to both men
• What is the central idea of the text? Include evidence and
reasoning/analysis in your answer.
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
• Write a short compare and contrast ESSAY comparing Robert E. Lee and
Ulysses S. Grant.
• Be sure to:
• Explain at least one difference and one similarity on the two subjects.
• Organize your ideas logically by using one of the organizational strategies in your
notes.
• Use TLQC: transition, lead-in, quote and citation
You have two days to do this. It is a formative assessment, not a summative!