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Unit Overview

READING AND WRITING NONFICTION FROM VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES: A Study of the Elements of Persuasive Text

  11th grade
  Three weeks - seven lessons
  Reading and writing nonfiction - focus on persuasion
  Pre- and post-reading strategies
  Elements (persuasion, figurative language (including imagery), logic, sound devices, rhetorical devices, and audience appeal)
  Handouts including graphic organizers
  Formative and Summative Assessment (A Long Thin Line of Personal Anguish, The Horrible Waste of War, A Pure Miracle)
  Glossary

 Unit Plan: Lessons

Each session represents one 50-minute class period.  Students

  apply pre-reading strategies to read persuasive text. Word HTML (with links to documents)
apply post-reading strategies to analyze and discuss persuasive text.   Word HTML (with links to documents)
  examine persuasive elements by reading, analyzing, and discussing persuasive text. Word HTML (with links to documents)
  begin the pre-writing process and early drafting for their persuasive essay. Word HTML (with links to documents)
  continue drafting their persuasive essay. Word HTML (with links to documents)
  peer edit and revise their persuasive essay. Word HTML (with links to documents)
  complete the writing process, publish, and self-evaluate final drafts of the persuasive essay. Word HTML (with links to documents)

 Essential Questions:

 

What are the qualities of effective argumentation and persuasion?
  How can pre- and post-reading strategies enable readers to make inferences and draw conclusions?
  How do reading strategies enhance the understanding of persuasive text?
  In what ways can prior knowledge determine and influence opinion?
  How does a writer develop effective persuasive arguments?

Summative Assessment and Scoring Guides:

          Students complete selected response, constructed response, and performance event portions of the assessment over the course of two days. 

 

PREVIOUS LEARNING

TARGETED LEARNING

FUTURE LEARNING

Students discern the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

Students apply pre-reading strategies and post-reading skills

 

R1F   Apply the pre-reading strategy of _______ to aid comprehension

  • accessing prior knowledge

  • previewing

  • predicting

  • setting a purpose and rate for reading

R1H   Apply the post-reading skill of  _______ to comprehend and interpret text

  • questioning to clarify

  • reflecting

  • analyzing

  • drawing conclusions

  • summarizing

  • paraphrasing

Students will apply pre-reading strategies and post-reading skills to aid in reading comprehension and to develop skills needed for success in post-secondary education and the workplace

Students identify and interpret figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, dialect, slang)

R3B   Analyze and evaluate author’s  use of figurative language emphasizing irony, imagery, and sound devices in non-fiction text

Students will analyze and evaluate the use and effect of figurative language to understand the nuances of nonfiction text in post-secondary education and the workplace
 

Students analyze word choice, selection of details, organizational effectiveness, and accuracy of information in nonfiction texts

 

R3C  Analyze and evaluate the logic, reasonableness, and audience appeal of arguments using details from text

Students will read and write persuasive (persuasive writing/argument) texts in post-secondary education and the workplace

 

Students write multi-paragraph expository (exposition/ expository writing) essays

W3C  Write multi-paragraph expository (exposition/expository writing) and persuasive (persuasive writing/ argument) essays with

  • an effective thesis statement

  • effective paragraphing

  • convincing elaboration through specific and relevant details

  • originality and individual perspective

  • individual style and voice

Students will read and write persuasive (persuasive writing/ argument) texts in post-secondary education and the workplace