Write a strong essay: High school reading & writing
Essays: thesis, counterclaims and rebuttals, quoting and citing, clear and concise style. A free High school lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: essays: thesis, counterclaims and rebuttals, quoting and citing, clear and concise style.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: what do you already know about write a strong essay?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: write a strong essay.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: Trail: A strong thesis (https://peabody.kids/world/write/write-a-strong-thesis)
- Learn: Trail: Counterclaims (https://peabody.kids/world/write/write-counterclaims-and-rebuttals)
- Learn: Trail: Quoting and citing (https://peabody.kids/world/write/write-quoting-and-citing)
- Learn: Trail: Clear, concise sentences (https://peabody.kids/world/write/write-clear-concise-sentences)
- Make: Write a high school book report (https://peabody.kids/book-club/report/high-school)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about write a strong essay, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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