Unit 2: StudySync - Unit 1: What's next?

Textual Evidence
Informational Text Elements
Central or Main Idea
Compare and Contrast
Connotation and Denotation
Story Structure
Author’s Purpose and Point of View
Arguments and Claims
Technical Language
Rhetoric
Reasons and Evidence

- Write a journal entry
- Read and discuss various informational texts
- Critique and evaluate the relationship between text structure and author’s purpose
- Read The Metamorphosis
- Podcast - "What's Next"
- Determine two or more central ideas in an article
- Compare and contrast central ideas
- Read Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
- Read "We Choose to go to the Moon" J.F. Kennedy
- Read “How Much Indian Was I?, My Fellow Students Asked,” Elissa Washuta
- Read Plessy v. Ferguson
- Write a short, well-structured informational article
- Respond to a question with a 140-character response

- Particpate in a discussion

- Write paragraphs and essays for various purposes

- Write journal entries

- Answer mulitiple choice questions

- Answer open-ended questions