Lesson Plan 10
Social Offenses Final Essay Assignment
Lesson Reflection
This is the final assignment and post-assessment of this unit. Students worked toward creating a thesis statement and multiple topic sentences. It worked really well to require students to check-in prior to moving forward after the thesis statement. Each student was required to get their thesis statement checked off before moving forward. Students were also required to create a detailed outline prior to writing their essays. However, several students skipped the outline part and went directly to the essay. Again, a graphic organizer or a more scaffolding of the outline would have required students to complete the outline before the essay, as well as require them have uniform outlines in the end. Because of the importance of this assignment, and the girth of the assignment, students would have been more successful with more chunking and scaffolding. Some students needed to be provided with more information and more support. This was the largest writing assignment of the semester and some struggled due to the endurance of completing the assignment.