1. Lesson 36: Culminating writing task: editing and publishing the final draft
About this lesson
Students edit and publish their final drafts to answer the prompt: What central idea or theme about humans’ treatment of animals does The Call of the Wild convey?

2. We revised our essays to use language to build cohesion and clarify relationships.
Let’s Review!
Teaching Notes
Suggested Pacing: ~1 minute
Directions:
Briefly review the previous learning.

3. Today we will:
Edit and publish our essays that demonstrate our understanding of The Call of the Wild.
The Writing Process
Let’s Prepare!
Teaching Notes
Suggested Pacing: ~1 minute
Directions:
Read the slide.
Briefly explain how this lesson prepares students for another lesson and/or the end-of-unit assessments.
Throughout the lesson, compare students’ responses and work to the student look-fors. Determine the students who need additional support with reading, understanding, or expressing their understanding of complex, grade-level texts. During this lesson or before the next lesson, support those students individually or in a small group using the Additional Supports for Diverse Learners.

4. A revised draft of your essay
You will need:
A revised draft of your essay
Let’s Prepare!
Teaching Notes
Suggested Pacing: ~ 3 minutes
Directions:
Ask students to locate the revised draft of their essay.

5. Editing Marks Edit the revised draft of your essay. Capital letter
New paragraph
Remove
Add
Check spelling
Let’s Discuss!
Teaching Notes
Suggested Pacing: ~ 25 minutes
Directions:
Access the ELA Guidebook Grammar Guide.
Determine student weaknesses in sentence formation, usage, mechanics, spelling, and style based on observations of student writing during the writing process and expectations of the grade-level standards.
Identify 1-2 skills to focus on for this essay, such as using punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break. The ELA Guidebook Grammar Guide provides suggestions for different grammar mini-lessons.
Then prompt students to edit their drafts based on the provided mini-lesson. They can do this independently or in small groups.
Student Look-Fors:
Student writing should be on track to mirror the level illustrated in the ELA Guidebook Grammar Guide by the end of the school year.
Monitor students as they are editing their essay to determine which students might need additional support. Provide explicit grammar instruction as other students write the final draft of their essay.

6. Include a claim and acknowledge counterclaims.
Write a final draft.
Ensure to:
Include a claim and acknowledge counterclaims.
Develop your claim logically and provide evidence to support your analysis and reasoning.
Maintain a formal style and use grade-appropriate grammar and language.
Let’s Express Our Understanding!
Teaching Notes
Suggested Pacing: ~ 15 minutes
Directions:
Ask students to follow the directions on the slide.
As time and technology allows, have students type their final drafts.
For students who do not finish, ask them to complete their final drafts for homework.
Possible Supports During the Lesson:
Use this time to work individually with students or pull together small groups of students to conduct a writing or grammar mini-lesson. This can also be done as a whole class if additional writing support is needed for all students. Choose an approach that matches the level of support your students need. Possible approaches for mini-lessons:
Engage in shared writing
Model using student examples or mentor texts
Revise a portion of writing together focused on a specific skill
Consult the ELA Guidebook Grammar Guide and the WriteAlong lessons to target a skill or concept
Student Look-Fors:
Access a culminating writing task student exemplar response.

7. You also edited your essay for proper grammar,
In this lesson, you demonstrated your understanding of themes related to human treatment of animals in The Call of the Wild.
You also edited your essay for proper grammar,
conventions, and spelling and published your final draft.
Let’s Close!
Teaching Notes
Suggested Pacing: ~1 minute
Directions:
Read this slide.