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**Development of Writing** Lesson 12 (Cluster 4.2)

Draft of a guest editorial ||
 * //Development// |||| //The ability to construct a draft with an emerging line of thought & structure// ||  ||
 * //**Mini-task**// || //**Prompt:**//  Write a draft of your guest editorial using the outline provided. |||| //**Product:**//
 * //**Mini-task scoring guide**// |||| Product meets expectations if teacher-student conference is satisfactory. ||  ||

**Prior to the Lesson**
 * Make student copies of Editorial Writing Checklist **(Handout 12A)** ||
 * Student copies of completed Structure of a Guest Editorial <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**(Handout 11B)** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Teacher copy of <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//Privacy Considerations are Left Behind as Invasive Digital Technology Advances// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">to model on a document camera ||


 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Essential Question** ||  <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">What happens when your privacy is someone else’s business?   ||

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The student will be able to write an argument to support a claim including strong, relevant evidence. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The student will be able to write on one focus, addressing what is most significant for arguing a problem and conceivable solution. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Lesson Objectives:**

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Background knowledge** |||| <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Review the task for the module: <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">What happens when your privacy is someone else’s business? After reading a series of informational text, opinionated text, primary source documents, and digital media on interactions with the digital world, write a guest editorial for a national newspaper that identifies a problem related to others’ use of your digital footprint and argues for a solution that could change the way society utilizes electronic exchanges. Support your position with evidence from the text(s). <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**L2** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Be sure to examine competing views. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**L3** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Give examples from past or current events or issues to illustrate and clarify your position. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Be sure to emphasize the necessity to complete L2 and L3.** || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Instruction** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">(shared reading/mini lesson) |||| * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//Before you start writing, I want to go over an editorial writing checklist// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**(Handout 12A)**
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Time** || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Lesson Component**  |||| <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Instructional Notes**  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">3 minutes || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Activating**
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">5 minutes || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Setting Purpose**  |||| <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//Today you are going to write your draft of a guest editorial. You may use any of the written or digital text we have studied and any of your handouts.// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//Don’t forget the purpose of your editorial is to argue a conclusion you have reached about the misuse of technological data and a potential solution. You are writing the guest editorial for a national newspaper.// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Briefly <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">discuss how the readers of a national paper, such as <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//The New York Times,// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">differ as an audience from readers of a school newspaper or a small community paper. What effects should that have upon their style of writing? ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">5 minutes || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Intentional Whole Group**
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">5 minutes || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Intentional Whole Group**
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">5 minutes || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Intentional Whole Group**
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Teacher uses <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//Privacy Considerations are Left Behind as Invasive Digital Technology Advances// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">as an example <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">to model the writing checklist on a document camera. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Teacher Support** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">35 minutes || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Independent Practice**  |||| * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//Today you are going to write the editorial, but do not create the title of your editorial yet.//
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Students write independently while teacher rotates to give feedback.
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Some students may have to finish for homework. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Some students may have to finish for homework. ||