Objectives: Students will be able to blend sources in their writing while preserving the power of their voice.
Materials:
- Handout 1- Blending sources
- Handout 2- Writing with sources
- Handout-It’s Your Show!
Do Now: Share in pairs your description of A public space
Mini Lesson
We’ll have a rhetorical sourcing workshop. We’ll work with strategies for using sources and unpacking quotes;
In A small group, complete the heuristic, “Rhetorical Sourcing Workshop”
We will share our evaluations of sources; Students will position and interpret a quote from their own source; and describe the connections between the source and your thinking about public space.
Independent Practice
In a small group, discuss how each ( which ) strategy is used your public space essay and present it to the class.
6 Strategies of analyzing sources-( 271-280 W.A.)
- Make your source speak
- Attend carefully to the language of your source by quoting or paraphrasing them
- Supply ongoing analysis of sources ( don’t wait until the end)
- Us your sources to ask questions, not just to provide answers
- Put your source into conversation with one another
- Find your own role in the conversation( page 278 W.A.) (A. Agreement: apply it in another context to qualify or expand its implications; B. Seek out other perspectives on the source in order to break the spell it has cast on you ( See an example on pages 279-280, W.A.)
Homework: Read and annotate “Revising Weak Thesis Statement” pp 261-264 in WA.; Generate a tentative evolving thesis for your own essay and write 250 words toward your essay making some kind of connections between your ideas about your topic and a source (or sources) you have located. I’ll be looking for evidence that you have put your source(s) to work.