9th Unit 2

Dear Abby,  ; )

The following are the standards I am focusing on next week.

A.6

a. Identify, analyze, and evaluate the effectiveness of persuasive techniques (e.g., appeals to emotion,

reason, or authority; stereotyping) and the presence of bias in literature, film, advertising, and/or

speeches



A.5
 
 
h. Identify the author’s stated or implied purpose in increasingly challenging text

 

There is a process for getting students to think like a writer to analyze and evaluate informational texts called SOAPSTone. 

 

S=Speaker

O=Occasion

A=Audience

P=Purpose

S=Subject

Tone=Tone

 

We would be hitting everything under the A.5 standard and it would keep up a very rigorous class system, but it would be on-going.  My husband uses it for his Pre-AP class, but I believe our kids could get started on a modified version.  We need to start them off being able to identify the different categories in a text then, we can have them analyze for just one.  The sequence is laid out and models made for us to follow.  I will start it, and see how it goes. 

 

My 9th grade week:

Monday:

Persuasion/Rhetoric (A.6)

 

Tuesday:

Persuasion/Rhetoric  (A.6)

 

Wednesday:

Identify the different SOAPSTone terms in a text  (A.5)

 

Thursday:

Identify and explain the different terms in a text  (A.5)

 

 

8th Grade:

 

RL8.3

W8.3  Dialogue, Commentary, Vivid verbs, Sensory details, Point of view, Characterization