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**Lesson Video: Personal Essay "Big Idea" Strategy **

This video is from the second writing lesson I taught on a strategy for generating "Big Ideas" for personal essays. The students were taught to think of a special person, place, or object that matters to them and write ideas related to that subject by generating, "This makes me think..." and "This makes me realize..." statements.

I modeled this strategy for all three categories and spent time thinking out loud so the students could see how I generated my ideas. I then asked students to practice in their writer's notebook. I checked for understanding from all students and found that a few students still needed help so when I sent the students back to their desks to work independently generating additional ideas, I worked with these students individually and walked around the room continually checking for understanding.

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