 Entry Task: ( Place your journals on desk to be
checked)
Since last class you have completed reading Tallgrass; What
are your thoughts about the ending of the novel? What is
the central message of the novel?
There will be a novel test next class! You will be turning in
your novel journals at that time.
Students will be able to . . .
Analyze how culture affects identity and perceptions
Practice effective speaking and listening skills that
build capacity for collaboration/communication
Analyze the concept of voice in reading and writing
Examine and apply the elements of exposition
Examine and apply the elements of argumentation
Returning the narrative essays
Cultural Narrative Prompts: Select one of the following prompts to write your
narrative.
 1. Write a personal narrative about an experience of cultural difference or
insensitivity you have had or observed. What did you learn from it?
 2. Write a personal narrative about how your family’s experience or cultural
history enriched you or presented you with opportunities or challenges in
pursuing your educational goals.
 3. Tell us a story from your life, describing an experience that either
demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.
 4. Write a personal narrative about an experience that has shaped your
identity, values, and/or understanding, specifically around the issues of
race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, family background or personal,
social or historical location in the society. Reflect on how this experience
has shaped your identity, values, and/or understanding of the world around
you.

With a partner:
o Trade papers
• Read your partner’s paper
• Give them ideas to help revise their paper.
• What elements of narrative writing can they add to their
paper to improve? Dialogue, Pacing, setting, etc.
Next class you need to come to class with a revision. We will
be going to the library to type the essay.
Writing an argumentative essay [169]
Think about a topic - Justice; cultural practices; cell
phone usage…etc.
Activity 2.12 – Previewing Embedded Assessment 2
Thinking about Argument
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Reflect on the learning targets for today. Do you feel
you met the targets?
1. Analyze how culture affects identity and perceptions
2. Practice effective speaking and listening skills that build capacity for
collaboration/communication
3. Analyze the concept of voice in reading and writing
4. Examine and apply the elements of exposition
1. What is one thing that you completed or learned
today that you found interesting?
2. What is one thing that you feel you can improve in
future classes?