Reading for Writing: Modeling the Modern Essay

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.01.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Audience and Purpose
  3. The Craft of Writing
  4. Mentor Texts
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Selecting Student Readings
  7. Classroom Activities
  8. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  9. Resources
  10. Notes

To Whom It May Concern: Considering Audience and Purpose in Writing

Simon C. Edgett

Published September 2019

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Resources

Bibliography for Teachers

Elbow, Peter. Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Gallagher, Kelly. Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts. Portland: Stenhouse, 2011.

McPhee, John. Draft No. 4. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Murray, Donald M. "The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts.” In Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers, Edited by Paul Eschholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark. 8th ed., 161-165. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000.

Pinker, Steven. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. New York: Viking, 2014.

Zissner, William. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

Student Reading List

Grade-10

Bolina, Jaswinder. “Writing like a White Guy: On Language, Race, and Poetry.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 496-505. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Douglass, Frederick. “Learning to Read.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 404-409. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Rodriguez, Richard. “Aria.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 465-471. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

X, Malcolm, and Alex Haley. “Learning to Read.” In The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 174-183. New York: Ballantine Books, 2015.

Grade-11

Didion, Joan. “Keeping a Notebook.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 487-493. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Keillor, Garrison. “How to Write a Letter.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 505-507. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

King, Stephen. “On Writing.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 493-496. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Nabokov, Vladimir. “Good Readers and Good Writers.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 883-888. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Grade-12

Franklin, Benjamin. “Learning to Write.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 484-487. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Orwell, George. “Politics and the English Language.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 14th ed., 510-520. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Welty, Eudora. “One Writer’s Beginnings.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 877-883. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

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