Paired Texts - First Lesson and Those Winter Sundays - Essay Writing
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Help your students practice close reading and essay writing by guiding them through two poems: “First Lesson" by Philip Booth and "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden. Then, facilitate their understanding of the speakers’ attitudes and central themes as they construct connections between the poems and practice writing literary analysis essays.
This 20-page resource includes the following:
- explicit lesson plan with identified Common Core ELA Anchor Standards
- anticipation guide
- contextual reading guide
- sample annotation passage
- poems
- rereading strategy handout
- literature web
- poetry graphic organizer
- Venn diagram
- literary analysis essay prompt
- short literary analysis essay rubric
- key (including detailed responses for all activities and a sample essay)
Incorporating all strands of the Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Anchor Standards, this "paired passages" lesson encourages students to practice skills in annotation, analysis, and synthesis. Students complete handouts with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies, which provide scaffolding for diverse learners. Afterwards, students respond to a literary analysis writing task that imitates the style of a standardized assessment.
With its detailed instructions and samples, this resource would make an excellent lesson for a substitute if you will be out for a couple of days.
In addition to the printable lesson, this resource may be used for distance and online learning with EASEL by TpT.
Interested in more lessons like this? Here are some you may want to check out:
Native American Myth and Greek Myth
My Last Duchess and To My Dear & Loving Husband
We Wear the Mask & I'm Nobody!
And here are digital resources if you use Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive:
Digital Writing Task Resource First Lesson & Those Winter Sundays
Digital Writing Task Resource Road & Harlem
Digital Writing Task Resource Ain't I a Woman? and Phenomenal Woman
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