English IV Dual Enrollment

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English IV Dual Enrollment

• Historical Narrative

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Objectives

• Students will define cultural analysis.
• Students will analyze the effectiveness of
  various cultural analysis essays.
• Students will write a cultural analysis essay.

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GLES

• W.1.A.9-12 ?

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Introduction

• What is a historical narrative?
• historical dealing with the past
• narrative telling a story

Anticipatory Set
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Lesson/Activities/Procedures

• Read How You Became You by Bill Bryson.
  Journal. Write 1-2 pages (typed) To what extent
  does Brysons essay qualify as a historical
  narrative? Why do you think he presents this
  information in this style?

Lesson Type Pages from text
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Lesson/Activities/Procedures

• Read from Superfreakonomics. Journal.
• Answer the following questions in about one
  handwritten page
• How does the essay begin? Why is this effective?
• How does the essay make the past relevant to the
  reader?
• Style should always be closely related to
  audience, topic, and purpose. Explain the
  authors choice to use a more informal style in
  this essay.

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Lesson/Activities/Procedures

• Before you begin todays reading, write a one
  page reflection on the bombing of Hiroshima in
  World War II. What do you know about it? What
  facts can you recall? How do you feel about the
  bombing? Then read Hatsuyo Nakamura John Hersey
  and Hiroshima by John Berger. Write a 2-3 page
  paper in which you explain how each of the two
  essays changed or reaffirmed your understanding
  of the events surrounding the bombing.

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Lesson/Activities/Procedures

• Read This is the End of the World The Black
  Death by Barbara Tuchman and Love Canal and the
  Poisoning of America by Michael Brown. Journal
  on each. Each of these writers tells the story of
  public health issues in a specific historical
  setting. Research another health-related issue
  that impacted a large number of people at a
  specific time in a specific place. Create a
  detailed outline for an essay that tells the
  story. Write the first two pages of the essay.

Lesson Type Pages from text
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Historical Narrative Paper

• A narrative essay is an essay that tells a story.
  That covers quite a bit of ground, but for this
  assignment you will be writing a formal narrative
  essay based on an event in our nations history
  that you believe has often been misrepresented.
  You will be working to tell the story accurately,
  dispelling common misconceptions in the process.
  Dont let the word story fool you this is
  still a nonfiction essay.
• 5-6 pages. Three non-internet sources. (Google
  Books, Ebscohost, etc. do not count as internet
  sources for this purpose.) Sources must be in MLA
  format.

Lesson Type Pages from text
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Peer Review

• Complete an extensive peer review one of your
  classmates papers using Microsoft Words comment
  feature.
• Then, write a 2-page paper explaining 1) what
  works about the paper and why and 2)what doesnt
  work, why, and how to fix it. Be specific and
  include examples and explanation.
• To refer to the third sentence of the fifth
  paragraph, write 5.3.

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Resources

• Rosa, Alfred and Paul Eschholz. Models for
  Writers Short Essays for Composition, 9th
  Edition. Bedford/St. MartinsBoston, 2007.

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Closure

• Students will participate in a peer review of one
  anothers essays in which they discuss the
  effectiveness of the thesis statements.