Modlel Curriculum - Under the Influence: Language Fluency to Understand Propaganda

Nonfiction Audience and Purpose

CURRICULUM

Nonfiction Audience and Purpose

NONFICTION AUDIENCE AND PURPOSE

	11th grade
	5 lessons
	Strategies: Recognize, analyze, evaluate text elements and text features; use active voice; compose text for effective career and workplace communication
	This unit consists of five lessons. The unit focuses on text features, text elements, letters to the editor, letters of complaint, and brochure writing.
	Handouts including graphic organizers
	Formative and Summative Assessment (see links below)
	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.

Analyzing Nonfiction Texts: Graphs	Word	HTML (with links to documents)
Analyzing Nonfiction Text Elements: Editorials	Word	HTML (with links to documents)
Examining Letters to the Editor	Word	HTML (with links to documents)
Letter of Complaint	Word	HTML (with links to documents)
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.

Summative Assessment One	Summative Assessment Two	Summative Assessment Three	Performance Assessment One	Performance Assessment Two
Summative Assessment One Scoring Guide	Summative Assessment Two Scoring Guide	Summative Assessment Three Scoring Guide	Performance Assessment One and Two Scoring Guide

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.	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.
Students must be able to use and create a variety of graphic organizers. .	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
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. .
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.