Lesson 7 - Activity 7.1 , 7.2, 7.3

Writing a Persuasive Literary Essay

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In writing a persuasive literary essay, your task is to convince the audience that your analysis of the text is sound and strong. To accomplish this, you must introduce the essay with a logical and engaging claim, then prove your point through presentation and analysis of sound evidence and argument. For this assignment, your audience is academic, so you must use college and career-level language and organization.

Benchmarks:

11.11.6.6: Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; demonstrate independent in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

11.7.4.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.

Learning Targets:

I can identify an authentic/significant problem or question for an in-depth examination/investigation.

I can correctly incorporate college and career-level vocabulary into my repertoire of writing.

I can plan, organize and write a persuasive academic essay.

Essential Questions

How does one plan, organize and write a persuasive academic essay?

How does one go about correctly learning and incorporating college and career-level vocabulary into his repertoire of writing?

What You’ll Need

“The Machine Stops“ study guide

All of your completed work from this unit

Internet access

Word processing device

Approximately 3-4 days

Resources

“The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster^[2]

You can find an audio version of the story at Librivox^[3]

“The Machine Stops” study guide

“The Machine Stops” Outline

Literary Analysis Rubric^[4]

Lesson 7 Writing Tips

Assignment: Choose one characteristic that makes the society depicted in The Machine Stops a dystopian society, and write an essay defending your position.

Activity 7.1

STEP 1:

Read “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster, filling in the study guide as you go.

STEP 2:  

Fill in an outline of your proposed essay. Upon completion, submit for teacher feedback.

Activity 7.2

STEP 1:  

Write a draft of your essay, including all evidence and warrant.

STEP 2:

Upon completion, submit for teacher feedback.

Activity 7.3 

STEP 1:

Revise your draft and complete the final draft of your essay. Please refer to Resource Lesson 7 Writing Tips as you revise.

STEP 2: Upon completion, submit for teacher feedback.

STEP 3:

Submit essay to your e-Portfolio. Be sure to include a 2-3 paragraph reflection with your artifact.