HONY Module

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:

essential questions

How does planning out ideas strengthen the final writing product?
What is a personal narrative essay?

goals

Students will understand that, when you have a clearer sense of where you are headed, you will be more likely to reach your destination.
Students will understand that a personal narrative essay is more than a typed journal entry - it is an opportunity to share and reflect upon a focused moment in your life.

c-tachs

Writing

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through effective selection, organization, and analysis of content
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience
Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach

Language

Demonstrate command of conventions of standard English grammar when speaking and writing
Demonstrate command of standard capitalization and punctuation

activities

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