Nicole Jacobsons 766 Alignment Template

Project Description:
The project is designed to improve 11th grade Honors students literary analysis writing skills, specifically in
the areas of essay organization and content development ( writing topic sentences, writing thesis
statements, embedding quotes, etc). The delivery method will be exclusively online and asynchronous.
Terminal Objective: Write practice topic sentences for three body paragraphs
Enabling Objectives Assessment Idea
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
analyze good This specific
enabling objective
and poor
could be assessed
examples of
formatively by
topic
having students
sentences,
write one body
and explain
paragraph on a
the specific
qualities that specific topic (the
same topic for all
make them
students). Then,
good/poor.
the
instructor/designer
will give students
peer partners who
will evaluate their
partners topic
sentence using a
teacher-created
checklist. Peer

Connect Activity

identify the
main ideas
for each of
the three
body
paragraphs.
recall
transitional
phrases from
a list

feedback will be
recorded and used
as a grade for the
activity.
Summative
assessment (Quiz)the quiz will have
five multiplechoice questions.
Each question will
contain a
paragraph sample.
Students will have
to choose from four
possible answers
which best explains
the main idea of
that paragraph.
Then, students will
have to pick (circle)
from a list which
words are examples
of transitional
phrases.

Terminal Objective: Identify from the list of examples given which paragraphs contain improperly
incorporated quotations and which ones are embedded correctly.
Enabling Objectives Assessment Idea
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Connect Activity
Quiz- two multiple explain

strategic use
of quotation
placement

recall the
rules for
embedding
quotations

choice questions
about embedding
quotes, two true
and false questions
about the general
rules of quote
placement, and
one pick two
question where the
student must
choose two
examples of
correctly embedded
questions from the
four possibilities
See above

Terminal Objective: Write an introductory paragraph that contains 100% of the following elements: a hook,
avoidance of plot summary, pertinent background information, a solid transition and a thesis statement.
Enabling Objectives Assessment Idea
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Connect Activity
define what a Students will work
hook is and with peer partners
or groups and rate
articulate its
20 examples of
importance
sample hooks and
explain to the class

identify and
rate hook
statements in
a sample
essay
find
background
information
that pertains
to the specific
topic and
evaluate
what is
essential/nonessential to
place in the
introductory
paragraph

why using hooks

make a better
essay and why they
rated each hook as
they did. Students
will be graded on
their explanations.
See above.

Quiz- there will be

four sample
introductory
paragraphs.
Students must
highlight in blue
examples of
background
information and
highlight in yellow
examples of
extraneous
information. Then,
they must briefly
explain their
choices in a short
answer question.
For the last

question, students
will be given a topic
( the theme of Dark
Romanticism in
Edgar Allan Poes
works) Students
must briefly find a
reputable website
about that author
and decide/ jot
down which
biographical
information might
be good to use in
an introductory
paragraph (with the
topic above in
mind).