- Mentor Texts
- Modeling connection: 2019 LAF student video on Olivarez
- Modeling use of detail
- Barack Obama, A Promised Land (excerpt) and Interview
- Mamadou Diallo, “A Rare Gift”
- What do the details in Obama’s A Promised Land and Diallo’s “A Rare Gift” illustrate?
- Resource Library
- Writing Process PPT
- How to Write a Summary PPT
- In addition to Obama and Diallo above, other possible texts for connection:
- Diana Diaz, “Overnight Pandemic” (2020); Caroline Hellman, “In Defense of the Classroom” (2020); Mike Bunn, “How to Read Like a Writer” (2011); Toni Morrison, “The Reader as Artist” (2006); José Olivarez, “Maybe I Could Save Myself by Writing,” “(citizen) (illegal),” and “Mexican American Disambiguation” (2018)
- Deliverables
- Schedule appointment at Writing Center before final draft of Unit 1 is due Friday 10/8
- Upload your Unit 1 Rough Draft to the Google Drive by Sunday 10/3
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