Objectives: Students will be able to reflect on unit 2 project through small group discussion and class sharing.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.B
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Do Now: Check on turnin status of the unit 2 essay. Select and read one paragraph or scene ( 30 seconds or 1 minute) for the class.
Mini lesson:
Critical Reflection
Your critical reflection should be approximately 2 pp. in length. Please review your own pre-writing for this essay and reflect on crucial moments in the process of its development. Consider these questions, but don’t try to answer them all. Respond to the questions that speak most profoundly to your experience in composing this essay, or address other aspects of the composition and revision process:
- Discuss some quotes or key passages from our Unit 1 or 2 readings that influenced your thinking about how to craft your personal/lyric essay, how to represent yourself as a speaking self in the essay, and how to arrange your material into the final draft.
- How did you decide on a topic for this essay? What other topics did you consider, and what made you settle on your final selection?
- Discuss a moment in the composition or revision process when your thinking took a sharp turn.
- Describe your most significant discovery or intellectual breakthrough in composing/shaping this essay.
- What aspects of this essay are you most proud of?
- What are you still struggling with?
Independent Practice:
In a small group of 3-4, discuss and share your reflections based on the questions above.
Assessment: Students turn in their reflections.
Homework: What is culture? Read Sherman Alexie, “White Men Can’t Drum,” In Short 152-156( What cultural issues does Alexie address in the essay?)