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    This document provides an overview of "Essay of the Week", which shares an essay each week with students to expose them to different essay styles and formats. The essays come from a wide range of sources and embody the classic definition of an essay as an attempt to try out or test an idea. Brief summaries are then provided of the essays shared in recent weeks, which covered topics like finding light in winter, techno-authoritarianism, online grading, social media use, writing tools for emphasis, and a TV show review. The goal is for students to engage with different essay styles and topics through these weekly shares.

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    This document provides an overview of "Essay of the Week", which shares an essay each week with students to expose them to different essay styles and formats. The essays come from a wide range of sources and embody the classic definition of an essay as an attempt to try out or test an idea. Brief summaries are then provided of the essays shared in recent weeks, which covered topics like finding light in winter, techno-authoritarianism, online grading, social media use, writing tools for emphasis, and a TV show review. The goal is for students to engage with different essay styles and topics through these weekly shares.

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    Essay of The Week

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    Essay of the Week

    Essay of the Week is built around the idea that for students to write better, deeper, and more lively
    essays, they need to have regular exposure to the essay form in its many shapes and styles. This is why
    each week, in the tradition of Kelly Gallahger’s Article of the Week, I share an Essay of the Week with my
    students that I post here.

    The essays come from a wide range of places and the only criteria is that each must in some sort of way
    embody the classic Montaigne definition that an essay is an attempt to try on or test out an idea.
    Beyond that the use of ‘I’ and contractions are just fine, if not preferred, and having five paragraphs is
    an option, but it certainly is not the only one. I also try to pick essays that still impart some sort of
    knowledge about the world in the same way an Article of the Week does.

    To learn more about my Essay of the Week, here is an in-depth post. And here are are my Essays of the
    week for 2023-2024

    Feb. 12 – Feb. 16

    The daylight is coming back and it might hit 50 degress sometime this week in Michigan, but even still,
    February can be a cold, hard, dark month here in the North. That is why this week my EotW is excerpts
    of Finding Light in Winter by Mary Pipher. I can’t take credit for finding it; that should go to my brilliant
    student teacher, Tasneem, but I’m hoping it can show kids that essays can do more than just unpack
    books, they can help us unpack life.

    Feb. 5 – Feb. 9

    Break, finals, a trove of ill-timed snow days, and a book manuscript disrupted EotW here for a little
    while, but I’m back. This week’s EofW comes from the Atlantic. It is called “The Rise of Techno-
    Authoritarianism” by Adrienne LaFrance. The article is much too long and some parts too political, so I
    cut about 75% of it, but even in truncated form LaFrance makes some really compelling points —
    especially in connection with the book we are reading, Animal Farm.

    Nov. 27 – Dec. 1

    As will happen, thing got hectic and I had a few weeks away from EotW, but this week it was back with
    “Snowplow Parents Are Ruining Online Grading” by Jessica Grose. You might want to think about
    parental response to the piece before sharing it (and maybe adapt as needed), but I had really great
    discussions with students about how they feel about online grade books that I think were enlightening
    for them and me.
    Nov. 6 – Nov. 10

    I often find myself with a great desire to talk about the perils of the age we live in (issues with
    technology use, media literacy, social divisions, etc.), but it’s hard to find the right essays or articles that
    don’t feel overly preachy or judgmental. This week’s EotW “I’m a teen who used to spend hours a day
    scrolling. Here’s how I curbed my social media habit” by Kate Romalewski does a wonderful job of
    striking the right balance and led to a really wonderful set of conversations in my classes. Plus, the
    students were excited to read something from someone their age!

    Oct. 30 – Nov. 3

    This week we are talking about writing tools for emphasis, so my EotW is a truncated (and made more
    student-friendly) version of “How to Exclaim!” by Florence Hazrat. The site that hosts it, The Millions, is
    also a really interesting new source for Essays of the Week–one I think you might be hearing about
    again!

    Oct. 23 – Oct. 27

    I’ve long enjoyed David Sims’ reviews for the Atlantic, but one of his recent ones about the children’s
    show Bluey caught my attention as a wonderful example of so much we talk about: theme,
    characterization, tone, etc. Plus, a lot of my students love Bluey, making it a high interest piece that is
    perfect as we start to move towards our first essay of the year.

    Oct. 16 – Oct. 20

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