Week 1
Lesson 1
Interview Essay -- Portfolio Entry 1 
- Students will be introduced to their first portfolio assignment, an interview essay.

- Students will demonstrate the ability to use clarifying vs. probing questions.  

- Students will create clarifying and probing questions by engaging in think-pair share activities.

- Students will listen to a story as a class, and prepare questions for the narrator.  They will label the questions as clarifying or probing.  
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Interview Essay -- Portfolio Entry 1 
- Students will review the concepts of clarifying vs. probing. 

- Student will practice asking each other clarifying vs. probing questions. 

- I will model how to apply the concepts of clarifying vs. probing to reading a mentor text.  

- Students will receive mentor texts (sample narrative essays that were created from interview questions).  

-  Students will learn how to annotate readings using clarifying and probing questions so that we can prepare to discuss the writer's moves. 
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Interview Essay -- Portfolio Entry 1 
- Students will choose a prompt from the Interview Essay assignment, and create questions for their interviewee.  

- Students will evaluate each other's questions, and prepare to start writing their draft during the next class session. 

- Students will annotate a sample interview article and discuss the writing moves of the author.  They will also write their reactions to the overall article to prepare for the socratic seminar.  
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Interview Essay -- Portfolio Entry 1 
- Students will engage in a socratic seminar. 

 - I will model how to start writing the interview essay and introduce how to write thesis statements and claims.

- Students will write their essay and prepare for peer editing next week. 

(During these sessions I will engage with informal writing conferences with students) 
 Week 5
Lesson 5
Interview Essay -- Portfolio Entry 1 
- I will model how to peer edit a paper. 

- Students will exchange drafts and peer edit. 

- Discuss the editing process. 

- Allow students to edit their work.  
(During these sessions I will engage with informal writing conferences with students) 

- Students will turn in their final draft next week. 

( Students will be reminded that in their portfolio, they will turn in their first and final draft and peer editing notes.)
 Week 6
Lesson 6
Reader Response Essay -- Portfolio Entry 2 

- Present students with the final portfolio assignment for the Reader Response Essay. 

- Review the annotating process to students and introduce the concept of investigating the author of an article. 

- I will model how students should read, annotate and respond to an article.  

- Students will be given an article to annotate to prepare for the Socratic Seminar during the next class session.  
 Week 7
Lesson 7
Reader Response Essay - Portfolio Entry 2 
- Students will engage in a Socratic Seminar about the article from the previous class.  

- We will attempt to write a short Reader Response Essay and prepare for peer editing during the next class period. 

(During this session, I will conference with students about their work).
 Week 8
Lesson 8
Reader Response Essay - Portfolio Entry 2 
- Students will engage in peer editing.  

- Students will edit and save their shorter writing for their portfolio. 

- Students will prepare to find an article of interest, annotate it, and write a Reader Response.  Be prepared to engage in peer editing. 
 Week 9
Lesson 9
Reader Response Essay - Portfolio Entry 2 
- Students will engage in peer editing. 

- Students will work on the final draft that will be turned in during the next session.
(During this session, I will conference with students)
 Week 10
Lesson 10
Argumentative Essay - Portfolio Entry 3 
- Introduce the next portfolio assignment to students, the argumentative paper

- Introduce students to the term argumentation, ethos, pathos, logos, lateral reading, synthesizing, introduce MLA format, counter argument

- Model to students how to read laterally and write clarifying and probing questions.  

- Model to the students how to annotate the article.  

- Teach students how to question the author's argument.  Is there bias?  

 Week 11
Lesson 11
Argumentative Essay - Portfolio Entry 3 
- I will model how to create a thesis statement from multiple pieces of information (synthesizing) 

- Students will engage in group work where they will read two articles silently, engage in lateral reading and annotating.  Then, they will attempt to synthesize the information, which creates a stance.

- Students will prepare for the socratic seminar during the next session (save their notes, save their reflection, save their clarifying and probing questions, save their synthesis statements) 
 Week 12
Lesson 12
Argumentative Essay - Portfolio Entry 3 
- Students will be introduced to ethos, pathos, and logos.

- Students will watch youtube videos and determine how the creator is using ethos, paths, and logos.  

- Students will be given an article, and they will annotate it using clarifying and probing questions, they will investigate the author (lateral reading), and determine the effectiveness of the author's argument.  Engage in a socratic seminar. 
 Week 13
Lesson 13
Argumentative Essay - Portfolio Entry 3 
- Students will engage in a socratic seminar. 

- Students will also learn how to engage a counterargument in their writing.  I will model how this process is done. 

- Students will work in groups to apply the concept of counterarguments. 

- Students will begin to work towards completing their Argumentative Essay Portfolio Assignment.  By the next session, students are to collect articles about their topic of choice, and begin the annotating process.  
 Week 14
Lesson 14
Argumentative Essay - Portfolio Entry 3 
 - Students will synthesize information, and I will conduct individual conferences with each student.  

- By the next session, students are to prepare for the peer editing process.  


 Week 15
Lesson 15
Argumentative Essay - Portfolio Entry 3 
- Students will engage in peer editing. 

- Students will edit their papers for submission by the next session. 

I will continue offering support where it is needed.  
 Week 16
Lesson 16
Argumentative Research Paper - Portfolio Entry 4
- Students will be introduced to their final portfolio project. 

- Students will demonstrate their ability to find a variety of scholarly resources and annotate them.  

- Students will create an original thesis statement.  

- They will prepare a brief oral presentation and discuss their findings.  Students will ask them clarifying and probing questions about their topic.  
 Week 17
Lesson 17
Argumentative Research Paper - Portfolio Entry 4 
- Students will defend their topics to their fellow classmates.  

- Still will learn how to read data. 

- I will model how to read and annotate data.  I will teach the class to use "I wonder" and "I notice" statements.  

- Students will be given a data set and asked to apply "I wonder" and "I notice" statements.  
 Week 18
Lesson 18
Argumentative Research Paper - Portfolio Entry 4
- Students will be given another data set, and they will work in groups formulating "I notice" and "I wonder" statements. 

- Students will begin to work on their papers, and prepare for peer editing the following week.  

- I will conference with students during this time.  
 Week 19
Lesson 19
Argumentative Research Paper - Portfolio Entry 4 
- Students will participate in peer editing. 

- Students will begin to edit papers. 

- I will conference with them about their drafts.  
 Week 20
Lesson 20
Argumentative Research Paper - Portfolio Entry 4 
- Students will continue working on their drafts. 

- Students will submit their drafts at the next session along with a finalized copy of their portfolio projects. 
 Week 21
Lesson 21
Argumentative Research Paper - Portfolio Entry 4 
- Students will submit their portfolios. 

- Students will engage in reflective writing to discuss how they have changed as writers.