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Lesson 37: Explanatory Paragraph Writing IV
50 min
California CCSS: Focus Standards
California CCSS: Supporting Standards
ELD Standards
Student Lesson
Lesson 37: Explanatory Paragraph Writing IV
Student Learning Objectives
1
Content
Students will draft explanatory paragraphs comparing Lewis’s and Reid’s points of view and explain how they address opposing viewpoints within their respective texts.
2
Language
Students will compare Lewis’s and Reid’s points of view and explain how each addresses an opposing viewpoint by using comparison structures, logical connectors, and evidence integration frames.
Essential Question
What is civic memory, and what responsibilities come with remembering?
Connections to
Knowledge-Building:
Students will compare Lewis’s protest work during the Civil Rights Movement to Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick’s modern-day protest of police brutality.
Enduring Understanding:
People shape civic memory through storytelling.
Future Lessons:
In Lessons 40 and 41, students will begin working on the Showcase Performance Task.
Unit Performance Task:
Students will need to know how to draft explanatory paragraphs for their Civic Memory Briefs.
Lesson Pacing
| Lesson Flow | Purpose of Learning Experience |
|---|---|
Launch5 Minutes | Students will review the writing skills and strategies they learned in this unit and set one goal for their writing today. |
Literacy Lab10 Minutes | Students will investigate active and passive voice in writing. |
Learning in Action30 Minutes | Learning in Action: Drafting an Explanatory Paragraph (RI.8.6, W.8.2.a–f, W.8.4) Students will respond to a question prompt by writing an explanatory paragraph using the skills and strategies they learned in this unit. |
Material List
- Unit 1 Lesson 37 Student Edition
Lesson Sequence
Lesson Texts
Short-Form Text
Eric Reid: Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee
Eric Reid, New York Times
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