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 |
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.
PREVIOUS LEARNING |
TARGETED LEARNING |
FUTURE LEARNING |
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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R3A: Using nonfiction text, the student will identify, analyze and evaluate the author’s use of text features to clarify meaning in multiple primary and/or secondary sources.
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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. |
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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