CAREER ESSAY WRITING

I. Topic/Grade Level: Career Essay Writing 12th Grade

II.

Standards:
Common Core
Writing Standards for Literacy in Social Studies and Technical Subjects 612
6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing
products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a selfgenerated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize
multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 612
7. Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g.,
visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem
8. Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent
understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.
ISTE Standards
3. Research and information fluency Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use
information.

Plan strategies to guide inquiry

Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of
sources and media

Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to
specific tasks

Process data and report results

III.Goals and Student Learning Outcomes:
GOAL: Students will write their essays utilizing Google Docs; they will share their documents
with the teacher so that necessary revisions can be made.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will demonstrate their abilities to complete a
complete and final draft of a written research essay that compiles all of the information they
have gathered so far. Students will demonstrate use of technology in writing their essay in
Google Docs and sharing it with the instructor.
Goal 1: Students will write a comprehensive essay that demonstrates thorough research

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Student Learning Outcome 1: Students will have a final draft that they will continue to
work on correcting.
Student Learning Outcome 2: Students will have utilized Google Docs in order to share
their essays and complete their various revisions.
IV.

Learning Environment(s):

V.

The learning environment will be in the classroom and at home. Students will be
working in the classroom to complete their written essays; they will also complete
work at home when revisions from instructors are made.
Resources:
Notability Application
Google Docs
Email

VI.

Diversity / Differentiation:
Students with disabilities may use a variety of assistive technologies that are
available to them; speech to text software, etc. can be utilized in order to write their
essays. Students will have support from resource staff in addition to instruction
from general education staff.

VII.

Technology Inclusion:
The instructor will have access to every student Google Doc and will be able to
monitor progress appropriately. Students will be using information from the
Notability Application on the IPad to transfer the information to their Google Doc.

VIII. Prior Knowledge: Students have completed their research for the career which they are
interested in and have compiled information necessary to complete their essay.
Lesson Placement in the Unit: This is lesson 4 of 10.
IX.

Procedures:
1. Lesson Introduction / Anticipatory Set:
The instructor will ensure that every student has their research completed and compiled
into an organized manner. The instructor can allow for time for students to prewrite and
complete prewriting activities. Students should be prepared to write an essay.
2. Direct Instruction:
The instructor should guide students in prewriting activities in order to prepare them for
essay writing. The students should be prepared from their previous nights homework
in order to write their essays. The instructor should have access to every students
Google Doc in order to observe progress, they may also observe by walking around the
classroom answering any questions that arise and giving insight and direction to
students writing.

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3. Student Interaction with lesson content / Guided Practice:
Students will have access to their Notability notes and they will also have access to
their prewriting activities. Students will have access to their Google Docs which will be
shared with the instructor. Students will be spending most of their classroom time
working on writing their essays.
4. Independent Practice:
Students should be working independently during this instructional time. Students
should be focusing on writing their essays. Students should for no reason be working
groups, however they should ask questions if they need clarification on their writing.
5. Review / Closure:
Students should have the majority of their essays written by the time that class is over.
If students have not completed their essays, then they will finish writing them for
homework. The instructor should make comments and correct student essays as soon
as possible so further revisions could be made. (Note: this lesson may take two class
periods and depending on skill level of the class revisions may be made during
additional instructional time.)
6. Presentations:
Students should present their essays to the instructor via Google Docs. Students will
not be presenting their essay information to the class until their final presentations.
X.
Evaluation/Assessment:
CATEGORY
4
Organization
Information is
well- organized
with a clear
introduction,
body, and
conclusion.
Quality of
Information

Information
clearly relates to
the main topics
listed. It
includes several
supporting
details and/or
examples.

3
Information is
organized with
an introduction,
body, and
conclusion.

Information
clearly relates to
the main topics.
It provides
supporting
details and/or
examples.

2
Information may
appear to be
organized but
does not have a
clear
introduction,
body, or
conclusion.
Information
relates to most
of the main
topics. No
details and/or
examples are
given.

1
The information
is disorganized.

Information has
little or nothing
to do with the
main topics.

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Paragraph
Construction

All paragraphs
include relevant
introductory
sentence,
explanations or
details, and
concluding
sentence.

Most paragraphs
include relevant
introductory
sentence,
explanations or
details, and
concluding
sentence.

Paragraphs
include relevant
information but
are not wellconstructed with
introductory
sentence,
explanations or
details, and
concluding
sentence.
Mechanics
No grammatical, Two or less
Three to five
spelling or
grammatical,
grammatical,
punctuation
spelling or
spelling, or
errors.
punctuation
punctuation
errors.
errors.
Bibliography
A minimum of
A minimum of
At least two
three reliable
three sources are sources are
sources are
included,
included. Most
included. All
although not all sources are
sources are
may be reliable. documented
documented
All sources are
using MLA
correctly using
documented
format. There
MLA format.
using MLA
are errors in
format. There
formatting.
may be some
minor errors in
formatting.
XI.
References:

Paragraph
structure is not
clear. Sentences
are not relevant
to topic.

More than five

grammatical,
spelling, or
punctuation
errors.
Less than two or
no sources are
included.
Student did not
attempt to use
MLA format or
used MLA
format
incorrectly.

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