Overview/Purpose:
Students will write a rough draft of their commentary.
Guiding Questions:
- How can creating an outline help us draft our commentaries?
Recommended Time:
90 minutes
Lesson Design:
- Explain to students that commentary writers, like writers of all genres, also make decisions about content and organization before drafting. Making an outline is one way to do this.
- Share with students an outline you have created and model how you would use the outline to start drafting.
- One possible model for a commentary outline is:
-Lead + Claim-Reason #1* support (example)-Reason #2* support (example)-Reason #3* support (example)-Other POV/counter argument-Interesting ending
- Students work on creating their own outlines and start drafting.
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