Title: "Educating Sons" and "The First Americans"
Page: 982
Reading Process Focus: vocabulary, context clues, word phrase relationships, compare & contrast texts, identify & analyze organizational patterns and text features.
Literary Analysis Focus: variety of genres, analyze historical context
Writing Focus: formulate a plan and draft a persuasive essay, demonstrate persuasive writing that is is used for the purpose of influencing the reader
You will:
- explore what is important in these texts
- identify and analyze the influence of historical context
- read and interpret a speech and a letter
- identify and analyze elements of an argument
- identify and analyze persuasive techniques
- identify and analyze comparisons and contrasts
- identify and analyze irony
- build vocabulary
- use antonyms as context clues to determine word meaning
- use the writing process to write a persuasive essay
- analyze a student model of persuasive writing
- Notes uploaded online
- Persuasive essay uploaded online
- Literary selection test in class
Watch:
The Forgotten Founding Father - Chief Canassatego
Listen:
Due Friday online:
- Notes: vocabulary, compare and contrast analysis, organizational patterns and text features, genre and historical text commentary (done in class, then typed online)
- Essay: Persuasive Compare and Contrast Essay
