Unit 4: Understanding Writers
Content students will know:
•Craft elements used by writers in constructing texts
•Factors in identifying and assessing a writer’s style
•Role of counterclaims in argumentative writing
•Steps in process writing tasks
•Formal language elements
•Presentation skills
What students will be able to do:
•Establish claims or a thesis appropriate for the purpose, topic, and audience for my writing
•Use various types of evidence and elaboration strategies in my writing
•Use an appropriate organizational structure in my writing
•Address and support counterclaims in my argumentative responses
•Recognize and use craft elements in my writing
•Analyze how an author’s background, culture, and/or historical context contributed to his/her craft elements
•Collaborate with others to improve writing skills
•Create an appropriate product for a presentation to support my written analysis
Key Vocabulary:
author's perspective, author's purpose, informational text, summarizing, diction, mood, tone, inference, text features, text structure, author's style, connotations, denotation, audience, figurative language, irony, juxtaposition
*Class Novel: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
•Craft elements used by writers in constructing texts
•Factors in identifying and assessing a writer’s style
•Role of counterclaims in argumentative writing
•Steps in process writing tasks
•Formal language elements
•Presentation skills
What students will be able to do:
•Establish claims or a thesis appropriate for the purpose, topic, and audience for my writing
•Use various types of evidence and elaboration strategies in my writing
•Use an appropriate organizational structure in my writing
•Address and support counterclaims in my argumentative responses
•Recognize and use craft elements in my writing
•Analyze how an author’s background, culture, and/or historical context contributed to his/her craft elements
•Collaborate with others to improve writing skills
•Create an appropriate product for a presentation to support my written analysis
Key Vocabulary:
author's perspective, author's purpose, informational text, summarizing, diction, mood, tone, inference, text features, text structure, author's style, connotations, denotation, audience, figurative language, irony, juxtaposition
*Class Novel: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Notice and Notes: 6 Strategies for Close Reading (fiction)
*Contrasts & Contradictions- Why would the character act (feel) this way? *Aha Moments How might this change things? *Again and Again Why might the author bring this up again and again? *Memory Moments Why might this memory be important? *Words of the Wiser What’s the life lesson and how might it affect the character? *Tough Questions What does this question make me wonder about? |
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Notice and Notes: 5 Strategies for Close Reading (Nonfiction)
*Contrasts & Contradictions- What is the difference and why does it matter? *Extreme/Absolute Language- Why did the author say it like that? *Numbers & Stats- Why did the author use those numbers or those amounts? *Quoted Words- Why did the author quote or cite this person? *Word Gaps Does this seem like technical talk for experts of this topic? |
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