Reading for Writing: Modeling the Modern Essay

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.01.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale
  4. Learning Objectives
  5. Content Background
  6. Content Instructional Strategies
  7. Classroom Activities
  8. Resources
  9. Annotated Bibliography
  10. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  11. Notes

Writers Use Risk before Rigor – Essays by Example

Jennifer Frasher

Published September 2019

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Notes

  1. Annie Dillard from An American Childhood The Norton Reader and The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises (Fourteenth Edition) (p. 99). W.  W.  Norton & Company.  Kindle Edition.
  2. Warner, John. Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities. (Baltimore: John  Hopkins University Press, 2018) 142
  3. Frasher, Jennifer Jump YNI 2019
  4. Hoyt, Linda and Stead, Tony, Explorations in Nonfiction Writing Mentor Texts, Heinemen 2012,
  5. https://www.smekenseducation.com/6-Traits-of-Writing.html
  6. https://educationnorthwest.org/traits/trait-definitions
  7. Jessica Brantley (?)
  8. https://www.enotes.com/topics/modern-essay
  9. https://www.enotes.com/topics/modern-essay
  10. Zinsser, William On Writing Well p 99
  11. Dillard, Annie, Excerpt from An American Childhood, Norton Reader 115
  12. Frasher, Jennifer, The Beach Essay, YNI 2019
  13. Seminar definition
  14. Didion, Joan (2007-02-12T22:58:59). The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International) . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.  Kindle Edition.
  15. The Norton Reader and The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises (Fourteenth Edition) W. W. Norton & Company.  Kindle Edition 516
  16. http://www.lb7.uscourts.gov/documents/314-cv-921.pdf
  17. The Norton Reader and The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises (Fourteenth Edition). W. W.  Norton & Company.  Kindle Edition.44-45
  18. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/education/edlife/writing-education-grammar-students-children.html
  19. http://www.madlibs.com/
  20. Elbow, Peter (1998-06-24T23:58:59). Writing without Teachers . Oxford University Press.  Kindle Edition.
  21. Ibid
  22. Warner, John. Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities.144
  23. Zinsser, William On Writing Well p xi
  24. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/education/edlife/writing-education-grammar-students-children.html
  25. Zinsser, William On Writing Well p 235
  26. Noel Langley, Wizard of OZ screenplay for MGM movie
  27. Ibid
  28. Patricia Polacco, Thank You, Mr. Falker
  29. Lane, Barry After THE END p 5
  30. Ibid
  31. The Norton Reader p 86-7
  32. “The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton” p 211
  33. Ibid p 208
  34. The Norton Reader p 90
  35. The Norton Reader, Genre Index, Modes Index, Thematic Index
  36. Brierley, Saroo (2014-06-11T23:58:59). A Long Way Home . Penguin Publishing Group.  Kindle Edition.
  37. Noah, Trevor. Its Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers). Delacorte Press, 2019.
  38. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_auditu*.html
  39. http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/

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