After reviewing the Pacing Guide for a type of curriculum that would apply to the "This I Believe" essay, I found that 6.a (yellow) sounds the most accurate. It deals with exploring personal issues and interests through a selection of texts. That is what "This I Believe" is all about, voicing your beliefs and expanding on why it is what you believe.
4.c (red) goes hand in hand with 6.a by being a summary of your ideas through a variety of texts. While writing the essay, you have dozens of different ideas floating in your head, it is just a matter of picking the right one and forming it into words. When you write a essay, it is best to avoid babbling, but many people tend to fall into this trap. You have to pick one idea, a belief, and elaborate on that6 single belief through many examples.
Along with this 4.1 (yellow) critiquing styles, organization, and the content of writing is applied to this essay. We are going to be editing and taking what we have already made and making it better. This as well as 2.e (red) to utilize peer feedback, style manuals, electronic tools used for revision and editing, and an evaluation of your own texts, applies to this essay.
We should also display our knowledge of vocabulary and branch out using different words to make writing more interesting, exciting, and eye catching. We do not want to sound like robots, but we also need to choose words that resemble ourselves. Writing should come off like you are having a conversation with someone, rather than a recitation.
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Ok... So I have used your blog as the example that I have shown to everyone.... WOW! You are a very exceptionally bright person. I like how you are specifically mentioning the curriculum for example 4.c. You make connections from a complicated text to what you are learning. Please continue the good work. I made comments on the rough draft and posted it in blackboard in the assignment. Please make the appropriate changes before you submit the final.
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