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Unit 3 Informational essay
Diana Palomba
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Informational Essay
An informational interview project
1970 2010
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INSTRUCTIONS
1970 2010
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1970 2010
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1970 2010
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1970 2010
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1970 2010
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Pose a dramatic question; it is the essential ingredient to maintain the audience's attention. It is usually subtly posed at the beginning of the story to intrigue the audience and is resolved at the end. Visual content is a universal, transversal language, like music. We are able to understand images from millions of years ago, even from other cultures.
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- Introduction – Introduce your topic and the theme of “the struggle for freedom has changed throughout history”
- Paragraph 1 – Introduce your person and their background.
- Paragraph 2 – Explain some of things you learned about their high school experience & historical significance.
- Paragraph 3 – Compare/Contrast their experiences w/ your own.
- Conclusion – Bring it back to your introduction
Using the provided graphic organizer, complete a rough draft of your essay. Synthesize the information collected in your interview into a 5-paragraph informational essay. This essay should be explanatory. You should also have one paragraph comparing, contrasting, or both- your teenage years to those of the interviewee. You will submit a copy of your rough draft for grading before submitting the final.
Take the interview information and produce a 5-paragraph informational essay about their life, you will include a paragraph analyzing the differences between their teenage years and your own. Overall, your essay should be centered around the theme, “How has the struggle for freedom changed throughout history?”
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Essay Instructions
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Objective
Students will be able to interview a person and synthesize the information to write a formal, five-paragraph informational essay.
1970
LINK TO SAMPLE ESSAY
Sample Essay
- Your essay should be typed in a WORD DOCUMENT
- 12pt & TIMES NEW ROMAN font
- Double Spaced
- Include a heading with NAME, DATE, Project
- CENTERED TITLE before the essay starts
- For this project, you will choose an adult person that you know and interview them with the questions provided to glean information about how their lives differed from yours in the decade they were a teenager.
- Then, you will take that information to produce a 5-paragraph informational essay about their life. Overall, your essay should be centered around the theme, “How has the struggle for freedom changed throughout history?”
- Complete the graphic organizer/Rough draft
- Submit your final copy, 12pt, Times New Roman Font, Double Spaced, Word Document
- due dates tbd
Overview
1980
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Interview Instructions
- For this project, you will choose an adult person that you know and interview them with the questions provided to glean information about how their lives differed from yours in the decade they were a teenager.
- You can pick a caretaker, aunt/uncle, grandparent, church/worship member, or neighbor who was in high school in any decade 1990s or earlier.
- Use the questionnaire provided to complete your interview. You can add questions of your choosing, but please make sure to at least cover the questions provided. You will need to make a copy of the document.
- I know what an informational essay is.
- I can identify a person to interview.
- I can take the interview questions and turn it into a paragraph.
- I can paraphrase and explain.
- I can write an essay.
- I know what are introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs.
I can be successful if…