This workshop is three days, 5 hours each day (not including lunch); Day 1 is a prerequisite for Days 2 and 3. Teachers learn how to teach the literary analysis/response to literature paragraph and essay.
Day 1 covers the following:
- Terminology
- Response to literature paragraph
- Graphic organizers
- Shared writing
- 1~1 conferencing
- Sample timelines/pacing plans
Day 2 covers the following:
- Prompt construction
- Response to literature essays, focusing on introductions, thesis sentences, and conclusions
- Scaffolding
- Ways to reduce grading time
- Revising and editing
- Weaving/leaving the formula behind
Day 3 covers the following:
- Two-chunk response to literature paragraphs
- Quotations and lead-ins
- Response to literature essay, 3 other types
- Vertical teaming for mastery ofthe elements of composition
high
middle