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Summarize Informational Texts
Students will evaluate and make inferences about the organizational patterns used in informational writing and will identify non-essential information that should be exluded in a summary. -
Expository Text Analysis
Students will use context clues to determine the meaning of words. Students will reflect, predict, and use pre-reading strategies to better understand an expository text. Students will identify controlling idea and supporting details in an expository text. -
Literary Text Analysis - Moral Dilemmas
Students will analyze and make inferences about the moral dilemmas in a literary text from a different country and the historical and cultural effects of dilemmas. -
Expository Wrting Analysis - Structure & Coherence
Students will analyze expository writing that is focused and coherent. -
Expository Essay Writing - Timed Writing
Students will write a timed expository essay over the given prompt. -
Essay Revision Strategies
Writing Revision Strategies Educational LinkStudents will explore strategies for evaluating and revising their writing. -
Poetry Analysis - Inferencing
Students will analyze and make inferences about ideas and messages in literary writing (poetry). -
Poetry & Media - Formality & Tone
Students will evaluate the change in formality and tone in poetry and media.