3rd - 5th  -  LUCY CALKINS  -  BREATHING LIFE INTO ESSAYS 

Teacher Manual

Publisher:  firsthand

Copyright:  2006

Pages:  216

CONTENTS:
BREATHING LIFE INTO ESSAYS
Welcome to Unit 3
I.    Collecting Ideas as Essayists
II.   Growing Essay Ideas in Notebooks
III.   Contrasting Narrative and Non-Narrative Structures
IV.   Using Conversational Prompts to Spur Elaboration
V.    Generating Essay Writing from Narrative Writing
VI.   Finding and Crafting Thesis Statements
VII.  Boxes and Bullets:  Framing Essays
VIII.  Learning to Outgrow a First Thesis
IX.   Composing and Sorting Mini-Stories
X.    Seeking Outside Sources
XI.   Creating Parallelism in Lists
XII.   Revising Toward Honesty
XIII.  Gathering a Variety of Information
XIV.   Organizing for Drafting
XV.    Building a Cohesive Draft
XVI.  Writing Introductions and Conclusions
XVII.  Celebrating Journeys of Thought


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