Literary Essay and Thesis Statement Workshop

Literary Analysis Essay and Thesis Statement Workshop Bundle:

Differentiation Made EASY.

Includes 3 leveled essay builder workshops and 3 coordinating thesis statement workshops to meet the needs of all of your students. Each workshop teaches the same elements, with the same topics and content, but are differentiated to manageable levels for struggling, at level, and advanced writers. Three, four, and five paragraph workshops are each highly scaffolded with instructions, examples, graphic organizers, mentor texts, video links, and plenty of space to build each paragraph. Teacher notes throughout the workshops offer helpful tips and ideas. One, two, and three-pronged thesis statement workshops included to coordinate with each essay workshop.

Overview Of Included Resources:

• 3 Paragraph Essay Builder with a 1-Pronged Thesis Statement Builder
• 4 Paragraph Essay Builder with a 2-Pronged Thesis Statement Builder
• 5 Paragraph Essay Builder with a 3-Pronged Thesis Statement Builder

Students will be guided through the whole process with clear, 2nd person, friendly instructions. Each paragraph can be a workshop of its own, making it easy to teach in manageable chunks, while allowing motivated students to move forward and self-pace.

Because these essay builders are so thorough, many students will be able to take off on their own and work through the whole process, producing an excellent literary essay independently, leaving you more time with struggling writers.

*Literary analyses are likely to show up on most state tests, so make sure your students are prepared to analyze literature like a pro!

ESSAY BUILDERS

These workshops are perfectly sequenced to make the writing process smooth. For example, evidence-gathering takes place in the pre-writing stage to make sure students don't discover too late that they don't have strong evidence for a solid essay that they have already begun writing.

SECTION WORKSHOPS INCLUDE:

Pre-writing WORKSHOP

• Thesis statement development
• Research and evidence gathering
• Guided note-taking and literary elements selection for analysis

Introduction Paragraph WORKSHOP

• Hook
• Background information
• Thesis statement

Body Paragraphs WORKSHOP

• Topic Sentences
• Transitions
• Textual Evidence
• Elaboration

Conclusion Paragraph WORKSHOP

• Restatement of thesis
• Summary of key points
• Revisit hook

Also Included:

• Sample Essays
• Rubrics

THESIS STATEMENT BUILDERS

Students learn the elements of thesis writing through engaging activities that make the process really simple. These fun activities allow students to learn in a variety of ways. Your students will be writing like pros in no time!

Included:

• A full page explaining thesis statement and an overview of literary analysis
• Full list of definitions of literary devices and elements that can be analyzed in a literary analysis
• Activities for decoding existing thesis statements
• Activities for creating thesis statements based on literature, movies, songs, poems they've read/watched/heard.
• Thesis Statement Scramble: Students will unscramble the phrases of thesis statements.
• Activities for color-coding elements of thesis statements
• Formula page that they can use all year, for any literary analysis assignment.
• Answer keys

NO PREP! Workshops are print and go, designed for flexible use. Perfect for seasoned writing teachers, as well as those who've never taught literary analysis.

Great for students who are ready to self-pace. Also, works wonderfully taught as whole class mini-workshops and/or STATIONS!

FORMAT AND USER INFORMATION: Each resource has 2 formats: PowerPoint

and PDF.

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