Communication - Convey thoughts and ideas for a variety of purposes
Learner’s Mindset - Demonstrating positive attitudes and beliefs with a lifelong quest for knowledge and skills and an openness to change
Adaptive Perseverance - The ability to continue through a task despite challenges and responding productively to feedback and setbacks
What strategies do perseverant people use to overcome challenges or obstacles?
How does an author's choice of words reflect their purpose in writing?
How do persuasive texts differ in style from informative texts, and why?
Students will identify the author’s purpose in text and media, and will cite evidence to support their thinking.
Students will conduct research and delineate between factual and opinion-based information, and write an informative essay that identifies the traits and qualities required to show perseverance when attempting to achieve a goal.
Define author’s purpose.
Define the three types of author’s purpose and provide examples of text and media that coincide with them.
Read and watch a variety of texts and media sources on the same topic and evaluate the change in author’s purpose for each source.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.4: Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6: Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6: Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.7: "Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate."
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2a: Introduce a topic; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2b: Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2c: Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2d: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2e: Establish and maintain a formal style.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2f: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
Perseverance, author’s purpose, persuade, inform, entertain, media, text
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordecai Gerstein
Project CRISS Materials
NASA Announces New Name of Mars 2020 Rover: Perserverance
Ten-Year-Old Becomes Chess Master
Teen Runner with Physical Disability
Media:
“Partly Cloudy” - Pixar
Phillippe Petit News Story
“The Walk” movie preview
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