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1. Opening

A. Entry Task: Writing Improvement Tracker, Module 4A Reflections

Expeditionary Learning Teacher and Student Actions Students reflect on and record their strengths and challenges from the Module 3 essay in their Writing Improvement Tracker. Students then share their strengths and challenges with a partner and discuss how knowing their strengths and challenges will help them with the next essay in this module.

AIR Additional Supports Clarify the language in the Writing Improvement Tracker for ELLs by providing a glossary of key terms. See the following examples of glossed words:

AIR Instructions for Teachers Ask students to brainstorm about their strengths and challenges by reviewing the Module 3 essay. Pair up students and have them share their strengths and challenges.

AIR Instructions for Students Brainstorm about the strengths and challenges you had while working on the Module 3 essay. Pair up and discuss these strengths and challenges with your partner. This will help you with your next essay. Example: revise—change something to make it better model—a good example reread—read something again make sense—be clear or understandable gist—the important parts improve—make something better

B. Reviewing Learning Targets