Literacy Workshop
Unit 0: Building a classroom community
Unit 0: Building a classroom community
Essential Question:
Essential Question:
How do we build a community that promotes both independent and collaborative growth?
Guiding Questions:
Guiding Questions:
- How can we be a caring community of learners?
- How do we develop independent thinking skills in our classroom?
- How do good writers develop a strong argument?
Unit 1: Identity & Author's Craft
Unit 1: Identity & Author's Craft
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- How can we tell powerful stories about people’s experiences?
- How does culture and the surrounding environment develop identity?
Guiding Questions:
Guiding Questions:
- How do experiences and culture shape your own identity?
- How do authors use literary devices to deliver a message to their audience?
- How does the use of adjectives and adverbs add to the meaning of poetry?
- How do critical incidents reveal character traits?
- How does perspective influence identity?
- How does various punctuation add to the flow and meaning of sentences?
- Why is it necessary to use capitalization?
Unit 2: Persuasive Speech & Taking a Stand
Unit 2: Persuasive Speech & Taking a Stand
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- How can I use my voice to take a stand for the betterment of society?
- Why do we fight for the things we believe in?
- What motivates people to publically take a stand?
Guiding Questions:
Guiding Questions:
- How can authors tailor communication to persuade a targeted audience?
- How do authors advocate a claim persuasively?
- What motivates people to publically take a stand?
- How can a topic of interest be developed into a research paper?
- What are effective pre-research methods?
- How do writers check to make sure they have produced clear and coherent pieces that are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience?
- How do authors use varying sentences to convey an idea?