what do we gain from looking beneath the surface?
Module summary:
- Explore the Humans of New York blog
- Discuss personal narrative essay structure
- Review "show vs tell" writing approaches
- Respond to narrative and persuasive quick writes
- Create either a personal narrative or persuasive essay
- Personal narrative essay: describe an experience you've had that connects to a HONY photo
- Persuasive essay: analyze an issue in society brought to light by a HONY photo
Without knowing their stories, what do you assume about these people?
We'll be using this tiny sampling from HONY as a warm-up on Tuesday:
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Tuesday: Photo warm-up / narrative quick writes / explore HONY / personal essay format
Wednesday: Persuasive quick writes / "show vs. tell" / explore HONY / intro DOK Thursday: finish HONY notes / plan and draft DOK Friday: wrap-up notes, revise DOK as needed |
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