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Abstract: The article consists of lesson syllabus for 10th grade literature class based on Dragunskij D.V. short stories «Dark side of the freedom» and «Sin of complete clarity». Genre as a «semantic basis» of a composition is the base of workflow during the class. Inclusion of associative thinking in the beginning of the lesson is a necessary condition to thoroughly read and understand the essay, to activate the academic work, to have a possibility of co-creative dialogue and predomination of essay genre. During the text analysis at the class the students are consistently revealing such features of essay literature genre as associative nature, compositional and stylistic freedom, accentuated personality basis, irony and confidential author’s intention. Dragunskij’s essays are of philosophic nature, and they are specifically chosen for the lesson to foreground such moral problems as good and evil dualism, inability to directly estimate the notion of «freedom», and the necessity to understand another person. The lesson is diverse in methods: work with associations, individual independent and group work with text, analytical and thoughtful conversation.