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This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching online English students active, critical reading techniques. It includes four modules that guide students through the writing process: reading comprehension, generating a draft, revising versus editing, and self-reflection. Each module lists terminal and enabling objectives, absorb activities like assigned readings, do activities such as outlining an essay, and connect activities like peer review discussions. The overarching goal is for students to learn annotation skills and apply the writing process to generate, review, and improve an analytic essay draft.

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Alignment Chart

This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching online English students active, critical reading techniques. It includes four modules that guide students through the writing process: reading comprehension, generating a draft, revising versus editing, and self-reflection. Each module lists terminal and enabling objectives, absorb activities like assigned readings, do activities such as outlining an essay, and connect activities like peer review discussions. The overarching goal is for students to learn annotation skills and apply the writing process to generate, review, and improve an analytic essay draft.

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Alignment Chart
Plan to teach English 1 to Long Beach City College students online
Module theme or Topic: Active, Critical Reading
Terminal Objective: Students will apply annotation techniques as they read in order to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate
texts.
Enabling Objectives
Assessment Idea
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Connect Activity
After having read
Discussion
Read Annotating the
Practice annotating.
Discussion
about and engaged in
Margins, Critical
Work toward
annotation, students
Reading/Textual
conversing with the
should be able to
Analysis and Thesis,
text. At the end of each
obtain the thesis and
and Dwecks
point Dweck makes,
main support from a
Brainology
write a summary in
text and evaluate the

your own words.
effectiveness.
When finished, think
about Dwecks main
points and how well
they support her
thesis.

Module theme or Topic: Generating a Draft
Terminal Objective: Students will use the writing process to generate a draft of an analytic essay.
Enabling Objectives
Assessment Idea
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Students should be
Thesis draft
Read The Thesis,
Compose a thesis
able to create an
Bakers School vs.
statement responding
argumentative thesis
Education and Platos to the essay prompt.
that focuses on their
Allegory of the Cave
topic and argument.

Connect Activity
Students share thesis
statements with their
small groups (four
students total) and
comment using the

Students should be
Essay outline or draft
able to compose
support for their thesis,
using textual evidence
and analysis to
strengthen their
argument.

Read Invent

Use the Power Lines


reading log to find
support for thesis
statement.

Module theme or Topic: Revising vs. Editing


Terminal Objective: Students will review, collaborate, revise, and rewrite their analytic essay draft.
Enabling Objectives
Assessment Idea
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
By reading about and
Suggest improvements Read Writers on
Students read and
discussing the
on first page of a mock Revising and Editing annotate mock student
differences between
essay. List which
and Proofreading
essay and then discuss
revising and editing,
recommendations are
helpful and unhelpful
students will be able to revision-based and
feedback.
differentiate between
which are edit-based.
both tasks.
After reviewing mock
Evaluate peers essays Watch No One Writes Discuss with small
student essays and
Alone
group how the peer
practicing revision and
review from the video
editing, students
can be just as helpful in
should be able to
an online environment.
analyze peers essays
for strong and weak
areas.
After evaluating peer
Final draft
Review peer comments Make revisions on the
commentary, students
and consider what
essay.

rubric.
Students evaluate and
comment on their
small groups drafts
using the rubric.

Connect Activity
Discussion based on
revision vs. editing
which is most helpful.

Evaluate peers essays


in small groups using
the rubric as a guide.

Final draft

will revise their essays,


focusing on
organization and
development of ideas.

steps need to be taken


to revise the essay.

Module theme or Topic: Self-Reflection of the Writing Process


Terminal Objective: Students will review, evaluate, and analyze what they have learned after engaging in the writing process.
Enabling Objectives
Assessment Idea
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Connect Activity
After completing the
Self-assessment
Look at and evaluate
Brainstorm on the
Self-assessment
essay, students will
reflection
first and final drafts of changes made and how reflection
reflect on their final
the essay.
the essay has
draft and create goals
improved, including
for the next essay.
what to focus on for
the next essay.

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