Last week, students began exploring the essential questions and text structure. We began working on standard RI6.5. This standard focuses on how pieces of a text fit together to make the whole meaning, much like a puzzle fits together to create an image you cannot see until its complete.The concept of text structure was introduced using this interactive lesson. Students were able to explore five different ways authors structure text to make a whole meaning. This week, we are continuing to practice text structure, and are beginning to introduce RI6.6 which helps students become familiar with determining an author's purpose for a text.
12/11-12/12 - Students close read and annotated Malala the Powerful, looking for important details and analyzing and answering questions for text structure. This work was completed on Google Classroom.
12/13 - Students reviewed Author's Purpose and created P.I.E. plates to help them remember the reasons that an author writes a text.
12/14-12/15 - Students will re-read Malala the Powerful, answering questions about author's purpose and perspective. We will also review for the assessment on Author's Purpose and Text Structure that is on Monday, 12/18.
**All of this is important practice for our upcoming assessment (the last assessment of the semester) on Monday, 12/18. The rubric for this assessment is here.
