1. Good Morning
Entry Task: Deconstructing a prompt practice. Read the following prompt. Write a thesis statement and two topic sentences.
To what extent does one’s culture inform the way one views others and the world? Be sure to support your claim with evidence from at least three different texts you have read, viewed, or listened to in this unit, as well as personal experience and insights.

2. Learning Targets
Students will be able to . . .
Analyze how culture affects identity and perceptions
Practice effective speaking and listening skills that build capacity for collaboration/communication
Analyze the concept of voice in reading and writing
Examine and apply the elements of exposition
Examine and apply the elements of argumentation

3. Back map EA 1.2 Activity 1.15 – Drafting your position Synthesis Paper
Activity 1.16 – Mapping position/organizational strategy.
Activity 1.15 – Drafting your position
Activity 1.14 – Indian Father’s Plea/evidence (completed)
Activity 1.13 – Two Ways to Belong in America/Nonfiction evidence. (completed)
Activity 1.12 – Everyday Use/evidence (completed)
Activity 1.10 – Where Worlds Collide/evidence (completed)
Activity 1.9 – Deconstruction a Prompt/essay basics (completed)

4. Embedded Assessment 1.2 Writing a Synthesis Paper.
Today you will be taking choosing one of the pieces of literature that we have read (Where World’s Collide; Everyday Use; Two Ways to Belong in America; An Indian Father’s Plea) and write a body paragraph.

5. Body Paragraph
To what extent does one’s culture inform the way one views others and the world? Using evidence from the writing piece (your choice) discuss how the family culture has either a positive and/or negative influential factor in informing the way one views others and the world. Topic Sentence: What your paragraph is all about 1st Support: Assertion that proves your topic sentence – positive or negative interaction Evidence: Two specific quotes/evidence from novel to support your assertion Commentary: Analysis of quotes/evidence. “This shows that…” 2nd Support: Assertion that proves your topic sentence – positive or negative interaction Concluding Sentence: Connect back to Topic Sentence/provides closure

6. Editing your 1st body paragraph
To what extent does one’s culture inform the way one views others and the world? Using evidence from the novel discuss positive cultural interactions and negative cultural interactions that impacted Bessie and Sadie Delany’s view of the world. Topic Sentence: What your paragraph is all about In the novel Having Our Say, Sadie and Bessie Delany’s world view is influenced by their family cultural influence in both positive and negative interactions. Support: Assertion that proves your topic sentence – positive or negative interaction Sadie and Bessie experience positive family cultural interaction when they moved to Harlem and their family joins them Evidence: Two specific quotes/evidence from novel to support your assertion Commentary: Analysis of quotes/evidence. “This shows that…” Support: Assertion that proves your topic sentence – positive or negative interaction Sadie and Bessie’s experience negative family cultural interaction when they were growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and they experienced racism Concluding Sentence: Connect back to Topic Sentence/provides closure

7. Body Paragraph
To what extent does one’s culture inform the way one views others and the world? Using evidence from the writing piece (your choice) discuss how the family culture has either a positive and/or negative influential factor in informing the way one views others and the world. Topic Sentence: What your paragraph is all about 1st Support: Assertion that proves your topic sentence – positive or negative interaction Evidence: Two specific quotes/evidence from novel to support your assertion Commentary: Analysis of quotes/evidence. “This shows that…” 2nd Support: Assertion that proves your topic sentence – positive or negative interaction Concluding Sentence: Connect back to Topic Sentence/provides closure

8. Exit Task
Reflect on the learning targets for today. Do you feel you met the targets?
1. Analyze how culture affects identity and perceptions
2. Practice effective speaking and listening skills that build capacity for collaboration/communication
3. Analyze the concept of voice in reading and writing
4. Examine and apply the elements of exposition
1. What is one thing that you completed or learned today that you found interesting?
2. What is one thing that you feel you can improve in future classes?