1. 3 min.
JOURNAL:
What is the most important qualities in a
leader? Why?
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DIARIO: Nhật ký:
¿Cuál es la Chất lượng quan
cualidad más trọng nhất trong
importante de un một nhà lãnh đạo là
líder? ¿Por qué? gì? tại sao?

2. +
Writing Workshop!

3. + 2 min.
Writing Diagnostic
 Writing well-developed, multiparagraph expository essays on
what it means to be a good leader.
 Expository= to inform, describe, explain, or define

4. + 3 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.

5. + 5 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?

6. + 2 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?

7. + 5 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.

8. + 3 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

9. + 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

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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)

11. +
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

12. + 3 min.
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.

13. +
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.

14. + 5
min.
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…”

15. +
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.

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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 Có ít nhất hai mục tiêu SMART (một cá nhân và học
uno académico, la adhesión a la categoria) tập, tôn trọng phiếu tự đánh giá)
Leer 30 minutos en la novela independiente. En la Đọc 30 phút trong cuốn tiểu thuyết độc lập. Trong
sección de Lecturas Reflexiones de su carpeta, phần phản ánh Reading chất kết dính của bạn, ghi lại
registrar los números de página que usted lee y số trang bạn đọc và viết ít nhất một đoạn trả lời câu
escribe al menos un párrafo responder a esta hỏi này:
pregunta: Độc giả đăng nhập để kết nối! Kết nối những gì bạn
Los lectores amor activo para conectar! Conecte lo đọc ngày hôm nay để chính mình, một văn bản, hoặc
que se lee hoy a ti mismo, otro texto, o algo en el một cái gì đó trên thế giới. Bạn phải viết ít nhất một
mundo. Usted debe escribir al menos un cinco frase đoạn câu năm.
del párrafo.