V4T 25-06-2024

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Comparative Essay (draft version)

Feedback session

Before we start

Laptops closed and coats off, please!

Do you have all your materials with you today? 😊

Is your gum in the bin?

Lesson Set-Up

Welcome + Attendance 

Lesson goals (5 min.)

QotW (5 min.)

/ Read your novel (The Reader) (10 min.) (individual / pair work)

/ Important info about the Essay writing test: no novels allowed, you will be presented with 4 questions (pick and answer 1), see the rubric on SOM for detailed elements that will be looked for in your essay. (5 min.) (together)

/ Discuss your list of comparison between the two novels read (10 min.) (together)

/ Either:

• Swap your comparative essay with your peer and give feedback (tops and tips); or
• Work on your comparative essay; or
• Let me read your comparative essay (if no peers are available at present to give feedback) (15 min.) (individual / pair work) 

/ Done? -->  Rewrite your essay (? min.)

Homework:
Good luck prepping for SE-3!😊

Lesson Goals

Explain in your own words:

• Expected essay grade: < 5.5, = 5.5, > 6, > 6.5, > 7, > 8?
• Progress made with: 

1. Working on your comparative essay;
2. Receiving (constructive) feedback on your comparative essay (tops + tips)

Quote of the Week (exercises)

"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Body of the lesson

In the next 40-ish min., we'll focus on the next exercise:

Together:

/ Important info about the Essay writing test: no novels allowed, you will be presented with 4 questions (pick and answer 1), see the rubric on SOM for detailed elements that will be looked for in your essay. (5 min.) 

/ Discuss your list of comparison between the two novels read (10 min.)

/ In case you need me (? min.)

Individually / Pair work:

/ Either:

• Swap your comparative essay with your peer and give feedback (tops and tips); or
  
• Work on your comparative essay; or
  
• Let me read your comparative essay (if no peers are available at present to give feedback) (15 min.) 

/ Done? --> Rewrite your essay (? min.)

Lesson Goals Check

Explain in your own words:

• Expected essay grade: < 5.5, = 5.5, > 6, > 6.5, > 7, > 8?
  
• Progress made with:
  

1. Working on your comparative essay;
2. Receiving (constructive) feedback on your comparative essay (tops + tips)

Homework

Good luck prepping for SE-3!😊

Class dismissed!😊

Name the linking words that indicate that an example is being given

Name the linking words that indicate a conclusion of some kind

Name the linking words that indicate contradiction

Name the linking word that indicates conditional information

Name the linking words that indicate possibility