Essay writing

Lesson plan for analyzing the Yeats and Updike poems in the comparison essay prompt.

Plan for the day students write a timed essay on "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

Lesson plan on two ways to organize an essay that compares two poems.

Lesson plan for editing the comparison essay's second draft for grammar, usage, and mechanics.

Lesson plan on how to approach an in-class essay in the AP style.

Lesson plan for peer review of the comparison essay's first draft.

How to prove a reading of a poem: the purpose of an explication and the kinds of evidence it uses.

Steps for organizing an essay that compares the Yeats and Updike poems.

Sample comments on quotations, style, grammar, and punctuation in student explications.