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Nonfiction Audience and Purpose
Unit Overview
NONFICTION AUDIENCE AND PURPOSE
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11th grade |
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5 lessons |
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Strategies: Recognize, analyze,
evaluate text elements and text features; use active voice;
compose text for effective career and workplace communication |
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This unit consists of five lessons. The
unit focuses on text features, text elements, letters to the
editor, letters of complaint, and brochure writing. |
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Handouts including graphic
organizers |
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Formative and
Summative
Assessment (see links below) |
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Glossary
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Unit
Plan: Lessons
This unit consists of five lessons and a
summative assessment that can be implemented in approximately nine 50-minute
class periods.
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Analyzing Nonfiction Texts: Graphs |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
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Analyzing Nonfiction Text
Elements: Editorials |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
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Examining Letters to the Editor |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
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Letter of Complaint |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
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Brochure Writing |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
Summative Assessment and
Scoring Guides:
Students complete summative and
performance event portions of the assessment over the course of about four days.
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PREVIOUS LEARNING
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TARGETED LEARNING |
FUTURE LEARNING |
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Students
must be able to: locate and interpret key information in
illustrations, title, headings, table of contents, glossary,
charts, diagrams, captions, maps, format, graphics, sequence,
and index; make predictions and inferences.
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Students
must be able to use and create a variety of graphic organizers.
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R3C: Using nonfiction text, the
student will analyze and evaluate the author’s use of text
elements: logic, reasonableness, and audience appeal; accuracy
of evidence, author’s use of information through word choice,
detail selection, and organization; identify and analyze faulty
reasoning and unfounded inferences; evaluate proposed solutions
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Students
must be able to identify parts of and compose business letters.
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W2F, W3E: Using primarily active
voice, the student will compose texts for a variety of career
and workplace communications.
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Students
must be able to compose text using various sentence structures
and length. They must also include cohesive devices and the use
of active voice. |
W3E: While applying appropriate
format, style, tone, and point of view in a composition, the
student will compose texts for a variety of audiences and
purposes.
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