TeacherName:J.Pigg Class/GradeLevel:7 th Reading 4thSixWeeks:1/9 2/17 UnitTitle:Unit04A:UnderstandingPersuasiveTextandMedia 1/9 1/27 Unit04B:FormulatingConnectionsAcrossLiteraryTexts 1/30 2/17 Teks: Primary 07NELA10 Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Expository Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. B). distinguish factual claims from commonplace assertions and opinions. Primary 07NELA11 Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Persuasive Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about persuasive text and provide evidence from text to support their analysis. A). analyze the structure of the central argument in contemporary policy speeches (e.g., argument by cause and effect, analogy, authority) and identify the different types of evidence used to support the argument. B). identify such rhetorical fallacies as ad hominem, exaggeration, stereotyping, or categorical claims in persuasive texts. Primary 07NELA13 Reading/Media Literacy. Students use comprehension skills to analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds work together in various forms to impact meaning. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts. A). interpret both explicit and implicit messages in various forms of media. B). interpret how visual and sound techniques (e.g., special effects, camera angles, lighting, music) influence the message. C). evaluate various ways media influences and informs audiences. D). assess the correct level of formality and tone for successful participation in various digital media. Primary 07NELA29 Figure 19:Reading/Comprehension Skills. Students use a flexible range of metacognitive reading skills in both assigned and independent reading to understand an author s message. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts as they become self-directed, critical readers. B). ask literal, interpretive, evaluative, and universal questions of text. C). reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension (e.g., summarizing and synthesizing; making textual, personal, and world connections; creating sensory images). D). make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding. E). summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts. F). make connections between and across texts, including other media (e.g., film, play), and provide textual evidence. Primary 07NELA03 Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Theme and Genre. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. A). describe multiple themes in a work of fiction. B). describe conventions in myths and epic tales (e.g., extended simile, the quest, the hero's tasks, circle stories). C). analyze how place and time influence the theme or message of a literary work. Primary 07NELA04 Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. A). analyze the importance of graphical elements (e.g., capital letters, line length, word position) on the meaning of a poem. Primary 07NELA05 Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Drama. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of drama and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. A). explain a playwright's use of dialogue and stage directions. Primary 07NELA06 Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. A). explain the influence of the setting on plot development.
B). analyze the development of the plot through the internal and external responses of the characters, including their motivations and conflicts. C). analyze different forms of point of view, including first-person, third-person omniscient, and third-person limited. Primary 07NELA07 Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Literary Nonfiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the varied structural patterns and features of literary nonfiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. A). describe the structural and substantive differences between an autobiography or a diary and a fictional adaptation of it. Primary 07NELA08 Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author's sensory language creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. A). determine the figurative meaning of phrases and analyze how an author's use of language creates imagery, appeals to the senses, and suggests mood. Primary 07NELA09 Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Culture and History. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about the author's purpose in cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. A). explain the difference between the theme of a literary work and the author's purpose in an expository text. Concepts, Key Understandings and Guiding Questions Technique Persuasive Techniques Structure Form Speeches Techniques Visual, Sound Forms Media Technique Persuasive Technique Forms Persuasive Essay Technique Persuasive Technique Forms Persuasive Essay Purpose and audience determines the author s choice in techniques, form, and structure. Interpretation Connections
Perception Thoughts Readers use strategies to support interpretation of text. Interpretation Relationships, Knowledge, Vocabulary Understanding new words and concepts enhances comprehension and oral and written communication. Interpretation Connections, Meaning Elements Plot, Setting, Character Form Fictional Short Story Understanding the connections between literary elements facilitates the reader s ability to make meaning of text. Techniques Sensory Detail, Imagery, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Personification, Pun, Irony, Oxymoron Form Literary Works Authors use techniques and elements to enable the reader to experience and connect with the events and characters. Interpretation Connection, Relevance Perspective Beliefs Form Literary Works Readers create connections to make text personally relevant and useful. Perspective Ideas, Feelings Interpretation Connection, Clarification Authors communicate their ideas and feelings about their own lives and the world around them in order to connect with others and to clarify their own thinking. PerformanceIndicators: 07NELA10.2Afterreadingand/orviewingoneprintformofmediaandonedigitalformofmedia,createachartthat identifiesboththeexplicitandimplicitmessagesandthevisualandsoundtechniquesusedtoinfluencethe message.(7.13a,7.13b,7.13c,7.13d)[elps]1e,1h;2f;4f,4g,4i,4j;5gembeddedkey Understandings:207NELA10.3Theprincipalaskedstudentstosuggestaschoolrulethatshouldbechanged.Think ofoneruleyouwouldliketochange.writeapersuasiveessaytoyourprincipaltochangetherule.supportyour opinionwithconvincingreasonsandevidence.shareyouressaywithothers.(7.14a,7.14b,7.14c,7.14d,7.14e; 7.17Ai,7.17Aii,7.17Aiii,7.17Aiv,7.17Av;7.18A,7.18B,7.18C)[ELPS]2C;3E,3G,3I;5C,5D,5E,5F,5GEmbedded KeyUnderstandings:3,407NELA10.4Writemultipleresponseentriesincludingthoughts,connections,and/or strategiesthatdeepenunderstandingofliteraryandinformationaltexts,includingpersuasivetextsandmedia.
Provideevidencefromthetexttosupportideas.(7.Fig19A,7.Fig19B,7.Fig19C,7.Fig19D,7.Fig19E,7.Fig19F;7.17C) [ELPS]1E;4D,4F,4G,4I,4J,4K;5F,5GEmbeddedKeyUnderstandings:5 07NELA03.2Whilereadingavarietyofliteraryworks,createacharttorecordwords,phrasesandsentencesthat appealtoyoursenses.onthechart,recordthemeaningofcollectedwords,phrases,andsentences.withapartner, discusshowtheauthors useoflanguagecreatesimageryandsuggestsmood.(7.fig19c,7.fig19d;7.8a;7.28a) [ELPS]1E,1H;2C;3E,3G,3H;4D,4F,4G;5GEmbeddedKeyUnderstandings:2 Unit04A:UnderstandingPersuasiveTextandMedia LessonActivities:1/9 1/27 Students explore different examples of media and identify the explicit and implicit messages portrayed in media. Students examine persuasive texts and media for techniques used to influence the audience. Students use the writing process to compose a persuasive essay for a specific purpose and audience. Students continue to improve their vocabulary by studying roots and affixes, foreign words and phrases, and by completing analogies. Unit04B:FormulatingConnectionsAcrossLiteraryTexts 1/30 2/17: Lesson Activities: 1/30-2/17: Students use skills learned to examine a variety of literary genres presenting similar ideas while recognizing features specific to each genre. Students analyze literary texts by making comparisons in purpose and perspective. Students describe multiple themes in works of fiction. LessonActivity3:Date DateEngageorExploreorExplainorElaborateorEvaluate Verybriefexplanationofthestudentactivity StudentResponsibility,Date: StudentResponsibility,Date: StudentResponsibility,Date:
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