To prepare my students for the state writing exam they will take in February, I began developing materials to help them step through the process.  They will actually write two text-based essays: an analytic summary and a compare/contrast essay.  The analytic summary is straight from Common Core R.2 and W.2, and it is a completely new mode for our state.  Here are the steps in the lesson I did with my students to introduce the analytic summary.   Step #1 Define the Mode and Cover Vocabulary Words Whether it is a … [Read more...]