writing+to+learn+strategies

Integrating Writing To Learn Strategies:
This lesson plan includes three writing to learn strategies.


 * 1) Students engage in a quick-write activity (a 3-2-1): students list three reasons why people migrated west, two people involved in the Gold Rush, and answer "What is the Golden Gate?".
 * 2) Students participate in a non-traditional method of writing to learn: students draw a picture in groups of three of assigned lines of Robert Frost's poem "A Fleck of Gold."
 * 3) Students end the lesson by crafting a "fifty-words-or-less" on a "Point-of-view" of someone affected by the Gold Rush.