Lesson One - Essay Writing
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| Course: | English Lang Arts 10-1 |
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| Date: | Sunday, 7 September 2025, 7:45 PM |
Introduction
Lesson One - Essay Writing
Duration - 1 block (1 x 80 min + homework)
"There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay... the essay must be pure - pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter." - Virginia Woolf, British novelist, essayist, and diarist
Unit One is heavy on notes. Do not panic - the remainder of the course is not like this!! This unit is designed as a review and presentation of the bulk of the theory (notes) that you will need for this course. Please print off the notes and store them in a separate binder for easy reference as you move through ELA 10-1.
You will not be able to escape the task of writing essays during your high school career. It is essential, therefore, that you understand and move beyond the basic five-paragraph essay.
Several times throughout this course, you will be expected to write a well-supported, carefully constructed essay which discusses a piece of literature that you read in this course. You likely have written essays before, but this lesson will serve as a review for that particular process.
Lesson
Read and study the notes on the FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY and WRITING a LITERARY ESSAY.
Carefully peruse the CARL RUBRIC and EXEMPLARS. These documents will give you excellent examples of what I am looking for when marking literary essays.
ELA Websites
The website links above are also found on the INFO page. Explore them to be aware of the kind of online writing help that is available to you.
Take the time to check out all of the "Links". You will also find a dictionary and thesaurus - which you should always use when you write. In fact, when you write Part A of your ELA 10-1 Final Exam, you are allowed to use a dictionary and thesaurus.
Assignment
ASSIGNMENT (10 marks)
Open a new Word document. Label it E101U1L1surname
In this document, answer the questions based on the literary essay notes, editing, rubric, and exemplars, as outlined below
Submit this assignment using the Dropbox for U1L1 essay questions
- Describe the three parts of the introductory paragraph.
- What is a thesis statement?
- What is the main purpose of the body paragraphs?
- What are the three things that a conclusion needs?
- What are two of the restrictions placed on a literary essay?
- What is one way that a quotation can be introduced into a paragraph in a literary essay?
- What are the five categories in the CARL rubric on which you will be evaluated?
- What is the topic of the essays in the CARL exemplars?
- What are some of the writing resources available at the University of Calgary web site?
- What link will you find useful at the OWL writing strategies web site?
Conclusion
You have reviewed various concepts and terms relating to essay writing.
Store this information in your "NOTES" binder for quick referral as you progress through this course. Create a separate section for rubrics, and add the CARL rubric there.