Reading for Writing: Modeling the Modern Essay

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.01.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Clarification of Terms
  2. Guiding Principles and Assumptions
  3. Examining Personal Essay Structure: The Lead and the Ending
  4. The Rhetoric of the Writing
  5. Teaching Students to Remain Authentic
  6. Applying these concepts in their own writing
  7. Works Cited
  8. Appendix: Implementing District Standards

How High-School Students Can Echo Professional Writers in Their Own Personal Essays

Raymond Salazar

Published September 2019

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Works Cited

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. (2015) “Letter to My Son.” The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/tanehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me/397619/.

Davis, L. (2012). 5 Things every teacher should be doing to meet the Common Core State Standards. Retrieved from http://www.eyeoneducation.com/Blog/articleType/ ArticleView/articleId/1711/5-Things-Every-Teacher-Should-be-Doing-to-Meet- the-Common-Core-State-Standards

Eighner, Lars. (2017). “On Dumpster Diving.” The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et al., shorter 14th ed., W.W. Norton, pp. 13-22.

Ennis, Robert (2011). “Critical Thinking. Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines” 26 (2):5-19.

Gallagher, K. (2004). Deeper Reading. Portland, ME: Stenhouse

Kolln, Martha. (2007). Rhetorical Grammar. New York, NY: Pearson Education.

Marchetti, Allison, and Rebekah O'Dell. (2018). Beyond Literary Analysis. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Robinson, Fred. (2017). “History of English and Its Practical Uses. The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et al., shorter 14th ed., W.W. Norton.

Salazar, Ray. (2012). “If You Write or Teach 5-Paragraph Essays, Stop It!” The White Rhino: A Blog about Education and Latino Issues. ChicagoNow.com.

Sanders, Scott Russell. (2017). “Under the Influence.” The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et al., shorter 14th ed., W.W. Norton, pp. 36-46.

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