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WRITING WORKSHOP
Response to Literature: Short Story
Learning Targets
• Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
• With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
• Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Response to Literary Texts: Short Story
The purpose of a response-to-literature essay is to demonstrate thoughtful understanding of a literary text. The writer identifies a central idea about the text and supports it with evidence from the text to convey meaning to the reader. In a multi-paragraph response to literature, you should
• Present effective introductory and concluding paragraphs
• Develop an interpretation and state it as a thesis
• Provide evidence from the text to demonstrate understanding
• Guide and inform the reader’s understanding of key issues in body paragraphs • Include specific evidence, details, and examples in body paragraphs
• Include an appropriate organizational structure for the essay
• Use a variety of sentence structures and transitions to link paragraphs
You will work with your teacher and classmates to construct two model essays. Then you will use these models to write your own essay. Be sure to review the Scoring Guide to understand the specific requirements of this writing activity.
ACTIVITY 1
Discovering Elements of a Multi-Paragraph Response to Literature
Before Reading
1. Quickwrite: What do you know about writing a response to literature? How does
an essay of this type differ from other essays you have written in the past?
Sample response: The main goal of responding to literature is to demonstrate thoughtful comprehension of a literary text. The writer produces an assertion about a text and supports it with textual evidence to show an insightful response to the text. Connections are made to the main idea of the text, the reader’s viewpoint, and he author’s style.
LEARNING STRATEGIES Quickwrite, Close Reading, Outlining, Think Aloud, Marking the Text, Graphic Organizer, Note- Taking, Think-Pair-Share, Brainstorming, Webbing, Drafting, Freewriting, Sharing and Responding, Rearranging, Deleting
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