Lessons 1-13

Students will be developing their knowledge of informative/explanatory writing and have many opportunities to practice essay form writing. Listed are some components we will review:

• Write an informative/Explanatory Paragraph
• Compare different genres
• Describe and analyze an illustration
• Write an introduction
• Add details to an informative paragraph
• Add illustrations for a topic
• Group related ideas and information
• Use linking words and phrases
• Write a compare/contrast paragraph
• Write a concluding statement or section
• Take brief notes from several sources
• Sort evidence for an essay

Lessons 14-18

Students will be going through the writing process: prewrite, draft, revise, edit, and final copy of a compare/contrast essay.

Performance Based Assessment

Students will be using knowledge from lesson 1-18 to complete a compare/contrast essay over two communities we read about during this unit: City Homes, Deep Down and Other Extreme Places to Live, and The Song of Sky and Sand. I have attached the grading rubric used for this assessment.