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JOURNAL: What is the most important qualities in a leader? Why?

DIARIO:¿Cuál es la cualidad más importante de un líder? ¿Por qué?

Nhật ký:Chất lượng quan trọng nhất trong một nhà lãnh đạo là gì? tại sao?

3 min.

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Writing Workshop!

+Writing Diagnostic

Writing well-developed, multiparagraph expository essays on what it means to be a good leader.

Expository= to inform, describe, explain, or define

2 min.

+Topic

An essay topic is the subject you choose to write on.

What is today’s topic?

Your specific topic is your opinion on the qualities of a good leader.

Share some qualities of a good leader.

3 min.

+Audience

Your audience will determine what material you include, how to organize your ideas, and how to support your argument.

IMAGINE if you were writing a letter to your grandma about your first month of college…

Your best friend?

Who is your audience for this assignment?

What is most important to your audience?

What kind of organization will help your audience understand your argument?

5 min.

+Purpose

The purpose of an essay is to convince the reader of your point of view, of your opinion.

What is your purpose in this essay? What are you trying to make the reader believe?

2 min.

+Format

Introduction: What are you going to be arguing (Thesis)

Body: Facts, personal stories, textual evidence, historical examples, and current events to support your argument (must have three– each one corresponding with a different body paragraph)

Make sure to address the other side, and then explain why your opinion is more accurate!

Conclusion: Restate your central idea (what you are arguing- your opinion) and summarize your facts.

5 min.

+Creating Your Thesis

Your journal entry can be condensed (shortened, tightened) into your thesis.

1 minutes silent work: create a one sentence thesis stating what you believe to be the most important quality in a leader and WHY.

Share

3 min.

+Writing Your Introduction

Hook: Interesting fact, quotation, humor, curiosity, definition, or anecdotes

Details: A few details about the idea of leadership

Thesis: Your main argument statement boiled down

3 min.

+Introduction

Take 5 SILENT minutes to brainstorm. At the end of five minutes you need to have:

A completed thesis (one sentence statement of your opinion)

Three FACTS that support your thesis (you may want to think about personal examples, leaders from history or modern day, or books you have read)

+Writing

In the next five minutes, silently produce an introductory paragraph with:

A Hook: an engaging sentence that will grab your reader (remember, possible hook strategies include: Interesting fact, quotation, humor, curiosity, definition, or anecdotes)

Two to three details about the importance of leadership

Your Thesis

+Body Paragraphs

Your three facts are going to become body paragraphs

Each body paragraph should contain:

An introductory sentence connecting your fact to your thesis

Details about your fact

A concluding sentence that connects your fact back to the thesis.

3 min.

+Body Paragraphs

You have fifteen minutes to begin writing your body paragraphs, then we will check back in. Body paragraphs need to be a minimum of five sentences.

+Addressing

Counterarguments

Take two minutes to create an argument that someone who does not agree with your opinion would make.

Take two minutes to address that argument: “Some might say that…”

5 min.

+Conclusion

A conclusion briefly summarizes what you have written in your body paragraphs and makes sure to tie everything back to your overarching thesis.

I would address possible counterarguments at the beginning of the conclusion as a gateway to reiterating your three main arguments.

End with a line that the reader will keep in mind.

Ten minutes to write a conclusion.

+HOMEWORK:

Deberes, công việc làm ở nhà

Read 30 minutes in independent novel. In the Reading Reflections section of your binder, record the page numbers you read and write at least one paragraph answering this question: Active Readers love to CONNECT! Connect what you read

today to yourself, another text, or something in the world. You must write at least a five sentence paragraph.

Por lo menos dos objetivos SMART (uno personal y uno académico, la adhesión a la categoria)Leer 30 minutos en la novela independiente. En la sección de Lecturas Reflexiones de su carpeta, registrar los números de página que usted lee y escribe al menos un párrafo responder a esta pregunta:Los lectores amor activo para conectar! Conecte lo que se lee hoy a ti mismo, otro texto, o algo en el mundo. Usted debe escribir al menos un cinco frase del párrafo.

Có ít nhất hai mục tiêu SMART (một cá nhân và học tập, tôn trọng phiếu tự đánh giá)Đọc 30 phút trong cuốn tiểu thuyết độc lập. Trong phần phản ánh Reading chất kết dính của bạn, ghi lại số trang bạn đọc và viết ít nhất một đoạn trả lời câu hỏi này:Độc giả đăng nhập để kết nối! Kết nối những gì bạn đọc ngày hôm nay để chính mình, một văn bản, hoặc một cái gì đó trên thế giới. Bạn phải viết ít nhất một đoạn câu năm.