Introduction

books walkingLesson 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.