1. 10/26
Take out your Write Score data chat and your Write Score essay that I provided to you yesterday. Write down 3 specific areas of strength and 3 specific areas of weakness.

2. Strengthening Writing
Write Score Rewrite

3. Learning Standard and Scale
As we move through today’s lesson, we will check off the boxes of tasks we have accomplished. Is there anything we can check off already? Don’t worry if we don’t get to everything today. We will continue this lesson next week.

4. Student-driven Writing
The main ideas of your body paragraphs should come from you, not the texts they provide to you.
Within each paragraph you should use evidence from multiple texts to support YOUR ideas.
There should be an obvious progression of your ideas

5. Body Paragraphs
Today we are going to work on refining our body paragraphs.
Next week, as we continue the rewriting process I will provide you with tasks on how to improve your introduction and conclusion.

6. Terminology and Color Coding
Thesis/Claims Reasons Evidence Elaboration Transitions

7. Thesis/Claims
The specific ideas or messages you want to convey, build upon, and illustrate in your writing. You should find your thesis in your introduction. It should appear as the following: The topic + the point = thesis statement/main idea

8. Reasons
Your reasons you address in your essay should be diverse and should come from YOU.
Reading the prompt first and then the texts is beneficial because it will allow you to think of reasons independent from what the text is telling you.

9. Evidence Supports your reasons in each body paragraph
Comes from the texts provided to you
Should be quoted or paraphrased and should have proper attribution
Each paragraph should have evidence from multiple texts and should be relevant to your reasons

10. Elaboration
Explains your reasoning and the evidence used in each body paragraph in your own words
Adds vivid detail for the reader
Elaboration should be varied (multiple techniques used) refer to the elaboration toolbox for ideas

11. Transitions Phrases or words that connect one idea to the next
Help the flow of the paragraph
Should be both internal and external
Refer to the transitional toolbox for ideas

12. Terminology and Color Coding
Thesis/Claims Reasons Evidence Elaboration Transitions

13. Peer Edit
Leave comments about the thesis/claim, the reasons they provided, the evidence they used to support, the strength of their elaboration and the use of transitional words/phrases
Use the proofreading marks on the wall by the student center to provide feedback on spelling and grammar errors

14. Rewrite Now, let’s rewrite our essays to make them a 4 – 4 – 2 !
On a new piece of paper, start your rewrite of your body paragraphs
Use the color coding system, the transition toolbox and the different elaborative techniques as you go to make sure are on the right track.
I have provided the texts for you so you can go through them again.