Standards:
ELAGSE8W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Essential Question: How can organizing my ideas help me on a timed writing assessment?
Warm-up:
1.The boat righted but was filled with water. The waves were running high. Cruzatte ordered two of the men to throw out water with some kettles while he and two other men rowed her ashore. Sacagawea, whose fortitude was equal to any person on board, caught and saved most of the light articles which were washed overboard.
The boat was _____ .
a. sinking
b. departing
c. returning
d. Rupturing
2. The normal, predictable state of matter throughout the universe is randomness, a relaxed sort of equilibrium, with atoms and their particles scattered around in an amorphous muddle. We, in brilliant contrast, are completely organized structures, squirming with information at every covalent bond. We make our living by catching electrons at the moment of their excitement by solar photons, swiping the energy released at the instant of each jump and storing it up in intricate loops for ourselves. We violate probability, by our nature. To be able to do this systematically, and in such wild varieties of form, from viruses to whales, is extremely unlikely; to have sustained the effort successfully for the several billion years of our existence, without drifting back into randomness, was nearly a mathematical impossibility.
Our existence is a(n) _____ phenomenon.
a. graceful
b. selfish
c. amazing
d. Dangerous
Work Session:
In groups and provided a prompt, students will prepare for GMAS by outlining an Extended Response Informational essay.
Students will read an exemplar response to the same prompt and determine whether their own response was successful.
Closing: Students share some of the evidence they used in their outline.
Homework: Extended Response Outline due Thur at 3 pm.