Students will know...
Students will be able to...
- a persuasive essay makes a claim or takes a position and backs it up with statistics, expert opinions, and other evidence
- technology is used to inform and influence the audience
- an expository essay contains a thesis statement/controlling idea and specific support
- main ideas are supported by details
- faulty reasoning exists in persuasive texts
- texts share purposes, main ideas, and themes across genres
- authors communicate their viewpoint in persuasive texts by stating a claim and providing evidence
- an individual genre is characterized by its style, form, and/or content and has specific, identifying characteristics
Students will be able to...
- create a multimedia presentation (may be produced in unit 4, 5, or 6)
- write a persuasive essay
- summarize the main ideas and supporting details in text
- compare and contrast different viewpoints
- synthesize and make logical connections between ideas
- identify simply faulty reasoning
- identify characteristics of different genres including persuasive
- identify the claim and supporting evidence in persuasive text
- How do different organizational patterns develop the main idea and the author's viewpoint?
- How do people summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts?
- Why would it be necessary to change or revise draft(s)?
- Why must a writer of persuasive text understand his/her audience?
- What are characteristics of an effective argument?
- How does a writer argue a position using supporting details?
- Why is it important for a writer to state his/her proposal or assertion and support it with an organized structure?
- Why are some techniques, strategies, or elements of persuasion more effective than others?
- How can readers and writers distinguish a fact from an opinion?