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Here's a link to a character qualities list I give students so they can answer CRQs about characterization in class. Then they MUST support their answers with text evidence. 

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Here's a link to a character qualities list I give students so they can answer CRQs about characterization in class. Then they MUST support their answers with text evidence. 

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Expository Essay Writing Resource Packet

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Expository Essay Writing Resource Packet

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I love using the thesis generator to help my students brainstorm/process the prompt and create their theses!

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I try to be very purposeful with my annotations that I model for the students. If we make a prediction/annotation to the side I always ask "what evidence do we have to support?" and we go back and highlight/underline where we developed that thought

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For my students who struggle to get out of the "2 range", I put an emphasis on how their analysis pushes their writing to a 3 or a 4. It is them intentionally explaining how their evidence/example ties back to the thesis/prompt: the WHY of their evidence. I provide simple sentence stems such as
i.     This illustrates...
ii.     This demonstrates…
iii.     This proves…

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Creating a writing reflection activity for students to judge themselves allows them to internalize their essays and edit/revise where they see areas of weakness

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Having detailed steps for thought processes allow students to fully analyze a text for that specific Literary device/TEK/Standard/Objective

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When reading I set a clear CFS on what we are making annotations for and ask CFU questions as we read. When we do MC practice, I always ask them to support with evidence from the text after they have chosen their answer.

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Students at my campus have access to a store they can use points they earn in class for and whenever we're reading any text, I have them look up unknown words and give out 5 points for the first one able to look up the definition on learnerdictionary.com and read it aloud. This helps them understand that they can and should look up words they don't know. : )
-Joy Ewere

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Example Question: Does Krakauer characterizes Chris McCandless as a good person? Support your response with text evidence.

1.      ___ Look for a quote that supports your answer to the question above anywhere in Chp. 3
2.      ___ Label your quote as a literary element: Dialogue? Characterization? Imagery? Figurative language?
3.      ___Write 1 sentence that states your claim and mentions which literary element the author uses
4.      ___Write 1 sentence that embeds your quote
5.      ___Write 1-2 sentences that explains the connection between the quote and your claim
6.      ___Check for spelling/grammar/punctuation/capitalization

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Not Student friendly, but it still works right? lol

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Middleton and I had kids write their own process memoirs using Farewell to Manzanar as a mentor text, which majorly helped kids internalize the idea of author's purpose/craft, as they had to do it themselves.

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I have charts with the organizational design of expository essays posted around the classroom that students can always refer to.