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Unit Plans and Extra Copies
Annotating
Students will deepen their thinking and enrich their reading lives. They will push past the literal level to the inferential and critical levels.
They will also learn to show their thinking on the paper by annotating texts. |
Investigative Journalism: Narrative/InformationalStudents will learn the process of discerning the small dramas around them, and of shaping newscasts to bring the news quickly and concisely to their readers. Then students will extend their investigative research to include interviewing, surveying, and research.
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The Giver & Thematic EssayStudents will read The Giver by Lois Lowry and use it as a mentor text in analyzing literature. This unit will teach students to write about and reflect upon the themes they see in texts they have chosen to write about.
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Nonfiction - Historical SpeechesStudents will learn how speech writers use rhetorical devices. As well as how to read closely to a complex non-fiction text.
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Argumentative Position PapersIn this unit- students will attempt to enter the tricky intersection of critical literacy and argument writing
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Grandparent BiographyStudents will be writing a 3rd person narrative piece on a grandparent.
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