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Money and the American Dream
My Notes
Writing Prompts
Select one of the following writing options for synthesizing the ideas in multiple texts. In your essay, be sure to:
• present a clear thesis statement or controlling idea.
• engage directly with the texts and support your ideas with direct quotations that you introduce and punctuate correctly.
• smoothly synthesize your ideas.
• use a variety of sentence structures.
Prompt 1 (Explanatory Text): Write an essay using three separate quotations— one of the quotes about money, a line from the poem, and a statement from the excerpt from A Raisin in the Sun—as the basis for discussing the question, “How important is money to achieving the American Dream?”
Prompt 2 (Argument): Express a personal attitude toward money, incorporating quotations from one of the quotes about money, a line from the poem, and a statement from the excerpt from A Raisin in the Sun as either support for your position or a counterclaim that you take issue with.
Prompt 3 (Explanatory Text): Write an essay that views one of the quotes about money from the point of view of the speaker in Gioia’s poem and one of the characters in A Raisin in the Sun. Your essay might explain how the characters both agree or disagree with the idea in the quotation or how one would agree but the other would not. Be sure to analyze the ideas found in the quotation from the perspective of those characters, not your own.
INDEPENDENT
READING LINK
Read and Connect
Review the time periods in which your independent readings and the unit readings were written. Compare
and contrast how views of the American Dream were expressed in different time periods.
ASSESS
ADAPT
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17 Allow students to choose one of the writing prompts based on their interest in the topic or genre. Having students write a piece for the option of their choice will help scaffold the work of synthesizing multiple texts.
18 Draw students’ attention to the Independent Reading Link activity.
Review students’ selection of quotes (in writing or discussion) during the Check Your Understanding task. Students’ charts should demonstrate an understanding of the connection between the quotations and
the texts.
Read the student essays with the bulleted list as a guideline. Be sure they have attended fully to every part of the prompt.
If students need additional help synthesizing details from the texts in their writing, work with them in small groups to create an appropriate graphic organizer for gathering evidence from two or three texts. Consider a word web, a three-column chart, or a Venn diagram with three overlapping ovals or circles. Conduct a Think-Aloud about one of the prompts, calling on students for
help in providing evidence to fill in the graphic as you go. If necessary, model how to use the evidence to write a sample paragraph.
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