1. Lesson 34: Culminating writing task: writing a first draft
About this lesson
Students continue engaging writing process to answer the prompt for the culminating writing task: What central idea or theme about humans’ treatment of animals does The Call of the Wild convey? They draft and revise their essay based on analyzing an example and sharing/receiving peer feedback.

2. We drafted and revised your claim for the culminating writing task and gathered relevant evidence to support your thesis statement.
The Writing Process
Let’s Review!
Teaching Notes
Suggested Pacing: ~1 minute
Directions:
Briefly review the previous learning.

3. Today we will:
Write a first draft of your culminating writing task essay to demonstrate our understanding of The Call of the Wild.
The Writing Process
Let’s Prepare!
Teaching Notes
Suggested Pacing: ~1 minute
Directions:
Read the slide.
Briefly explain how this lesson prepares students for another lesson and/or the end-of-unit assessments.
Throughout the lesson, compare students’ responses and work to the student look-fors. Determine the students who need additional support with reading, understanding, or expressing their understanding of complex, grade-level texts. During this lesson or before the next lesson, support those students individually or in a small group using the Additional Supports for Diverse Learners.

4. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
You will need:
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Your culminating writing task directions
Your prepare to write your essay handout
Notebook paper
Your character relationships handout, incident chart, and other notes
Let’s Prepare!
Teaching Notes
Suggested Pacing: ~ 3 minutes
Directions:
Distribute the text.
Ask students to locate their culminating writing task directions, their prepare to write your essay handout, notebook paper, and their handouts and notes from the unit.
Ask students to locate their culminating writing task directions handout, their prepare to write your essay handout, their painted essay handout, their incident chart handout and various notes from throughout the unit.
Distribute or ask students to locate notebook paper.

5. Review the culminating writing task directions.
Let’s Read!
Teaching Notes
Suggested Pacing: ~ 2 minutes
Directions:
Remind students to review the culminating writing task directions handout as a way to reground themselves in the task and the purpose for their writing prior to drafting their first draft.
Student Look-Fors:
Students should read the culminating writing task directions handout.

6. Write a draft response to the culminating writing task prompt.
Let’s Express Our Understanding!
Teaching Notes
Suggested Pacing: ~40 minutes
Directions:
Ask students to follow the directions on the slide.
Possible Supports During the Lesson:
Use this time to work individually with students or pull together small groups of students to conduct a writing or grammar mini-lesson. This can also be done as a whole class if additional writing support is needed for all students. Choose an approach that matches the level of support your students need. Possible approaches for mini-lessons:
Engage in shared writing
Model using student examples or mentor texts
Revise a portion of writing together focused on a specific skill
Consult the ELA Guidebook Grammar Guide and the WriteAlong lessons to target a skill or concept
Student Look-Fors:
Access a culminating writing task student exemplar response.
Additional Notes:
Students may be in different places with their writing given the previous lesson. Students should use this time as needed; some may need to continue to gather or revise evidence, while others may be fully in the drafting stage of the writing process.

7. You also drafted your response to the culminating writing task.
In this lesson, you considered what themes London conveys about human treatment of animals.
You also drafted your response to the culminating writing task.
Let’s Close!
Teaching Notes
Suggested Pacing: ~1 minute
Directions:
Read the slide.