Unit 1.pdf - Southwest High School
Unit 1.pdf - Southwest High School
Unit 1.pdf - Southwest High School
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Assessment 2<br />
Writing a Reflective Essay<br />
SUGGESTED LEARNING STRATEGIES: Brainstorming, Drafting,<br />
Self-Editing/Peer Editing<br />
Assignment<br />
Your assignment is to write a reflective essay that illustrates an event in<br />
which you or someone you know felt like a “stranger in the village” or was<br />
perceived as “strange” by some group.<br />
Steps<br />
Prewriting<br />
1. Generate a list of events that capture the thematic concept of “stranger<br />
in the village” by considering a time in which you felt like an outsider,<br />
witnessed someone else who was made to feel like an outsider, and/or<br />
made someone else feel like an outsider. Select two or three events from<br />
your list to share with a partner, and explain how your event addresses<br />
the thematic concept.<br />
2. Select the strongest topic of interest to you and use a prewriting strategy<br />
to capture ideas and explore your memory of the event.<br />
3. Review the organizational structure of a reflective essay (e.g., event,<br />
response, and reflection) by revisiting the two literary examples<br />
presented in this unit—“Shooting an Elephant” and “Stranger in the<br />
Village.” Note the differences between them in terms of the recursive<br />
pattern of event, response, and reflection.<br />
4. Consider a structure that would work well for your event and create a<br />
graphic organizer to generate a rhetorical plan that expands ideas from<br />
your prewrite and organizes the information.<br />
5. Refine your rhetorical plan by considering your subject, purpose, target<br />
audience, and tone.<br />
Drafting<br />
6. Use your rhetorical plan to generate a first draft that develops points<br />
within the preliminary organizational structure, addresses the thematic<br />
concept, and incorporates stylistic devices (e.g., voice, diction, detail,<br />
figurative language, syntax, etc.).<br />
Revising<br />
7. Read through your draft and revise it for clarity, to achieve the rhetorical<br />
purpose outlined in the assignment, and to maintain a consistent tone<br />
appropriate for your audience.<br />
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