Learning Goal
I am learning to
Identify the elements of a variety of texts
Use evidence to support my ideas;
Apply reading strategies so we can make meaning from a text;
Organize our ideas in writing using a variety of strategies.

Today, we will review how to write a literary analysis paragraph. I hope you are seeing the connection between how you write using your research and how you write to include evidence from a literary text. In both cases, we can use this template:

Review the model here or on the whiteboard in the classroom. Create your own model by mimicking the models we generate in class. If you practice using this template, you will become confident in your writing, and then you will begin to develop your own style and begin to change how you use this template.

And here is the model we created on writing a research report body paragraph:

And we began using this template when we first wrote about our literature circle novels: