We start with the Essay Boot Camp followed by many engaging lessons converted to Google Slide lessons during Distance Learning in 2020-2021.
Students will write their first essay on a character from one of the short stories we read in class. Then students will write a second essay on theme (for the same story they used for the character essay), but this time they will work more independently. The theme-based literary essay lessons are in one google slide below:
The next two slides cover finding evidence to support the claim and how to incorporate it into an essay, creating an outline, and studying a mentor essay to see how an essay fits together. Now it is time for students to draft an outline and first draft of their essay.