1. Collect two sheets from the counter
Bubble in your student number on your answer sheet Add THREE ZEROS before your number
Study for your quiz

2. Success Criteria
I can create and fill out a Do/What chart in order to properly deconstruct a writing prompt.
I can begin writing an essay on the theme of “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes.

3. When I say, “deconstruct a writing prompt,” what do you think I mean?
Prior Knowledge
When I say, “deconstruct a writing prompt,” what do you think I mean?
Why is it vital to be able to deconstruct a writing prompt?
What would happen if you did not fully understand the writing prompt, and then you begin writing an essay?
When writing an essay, should you read a text or the writing prompt first?

4. Do/What
What is it?

5. A chart I create in order to deconstruct a writing prompt.
Do/What
A chart I create in order to deconstruct a writing prompt.
It is used to make sure I answer all parts of a writing prompt.
I will use for all essays in Literacy.

6. First, you draw a T-Chart on your sheet of paper.
Do/What
First, you draw a T-Chart on your sheet of paper.
The left side says, “Do.”
The right side says, “What.” DO
WHAT

7. Next, you read the writing prompt.
Do/What
Next, you read the writing prompt.
While doing so, you put all verbs in the “Do” side of the chart.
Then, you put the parts of the sentences that you are actually “doing” on the “What” side of the chart. DO
WHAT

8. Do/What
Example:
Determine the theme. DO
WHAT
Determine
theme

9. Use standard conventions of English. Write an essay.
TIPS
You do NOT need to include the nonessential or the “I already know this” parts of a writing prompt.
Example:
Use standard conventions of English.
Write an essay.

10. Do/What - Teacher Completes
Please read “The Woman Called Moses” by Walter Oleksy and Meg Mims. In this text, the authors develop several central ideas. After you have read, determine one central idea from the text and write an essay that both summarizes and analyzes how that central idea is conveyed through particular details. Cite evidence from the text to support your analysis. Follow the conventions of standard written English. Write your essay in the space provided on the next pages.

11. Why do you think we are going to use Do/What Charts?
How will having a completed Do/What Chart help you when you are reading the text(s) and writing the essay?

12. Do/What - Class Completes
The writer of “Beyond Thirst: The Global Water Crisis” introduces a key idea that people all over the world lack access to safe drinking water.
Write an essay that summarizes and analyzes how this key idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in the text. Be sure to cite evidence from the text to support your analysis. Follow the conventions of standard written English. Write your essay in the space provided on the next pages.

13. Do/What - Groups Completes - on back side of Do/What sheet
Please read “Ingenious Coralbots May Help Restore Coral Reefs” by Meera Dolasia. In this text, the writer develops several central ideas.
After you have read, determine one central idea from the text and write an essay that both summarizes and analyzes how that central idea is developed over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details. Cite strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis. Follow the conventions of standard written English. Write your essay in the space provided on the next pages.
On back of sheet

14. Do/What - on front side of Do/What Chart sheet Writing Prompt: What is the author’s message/theme in “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes? Give two methods Noyes used to convey this theme (character, setting, plot, conflict, recurring elements, and title). Use text evidence to support your response.

15. This will be completed in class on Thursday and Friday
This will be completed in class on Thursday and Friday. You may take it home and complete it early, if you would like.
Use your lined paper.
Do not write on the back side of the paper.
In Alfred Noyes “The Highwayman” the theme/message is clearly conveyed. Give two methods (character, setting, plot, conflict, recurring elements, or title) Noyes used to convey this theme. Use text evidence to support your response.
Page 587 in the Literature Textbooks.
YOU MUST HAVE 2 PIECES OF EVIDENCE PER BODY PARAGRAPH.

16. Exit Reflection: Are you confident with creating and completing a Do/What Chart in order to understand what to write about? Why?

17. Do/What - Individual Student Completes - Extra Practice
You have read “Tim Cook’s Speech at Steve Jobs Memorial.”2 Now determine Cook’s purpose. Write an essay that summarizes and analyzes how he uses rhetoric to advance his purpose. Be sure to cite strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis. Follow the conventions of standard written English. Write your essay in the space provided in the next pages.
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18. Do/What - Individual Student Completes - Extra Practice
As part of the “war on drugs” and in reaction to an increase in school violence, many schools across the nation now conduct targeted searches of student lockers and backpacks. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that public school officials have the right to search students’ persons and property when they have reasonable cause to suspect weapons or drugs, many people feel this is a gross violation of students’ right to privacy. Others feel that since school officials are responsible for the well-being of students while they are in the building, they have the right to search for drugs or weapons at any time. Argue for one side of the issue. Give reasons with specific evidence from the two texts.
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