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Unit Overview
Unit Overview
This unit focuses on memoir and how writers use craft to tell their diverse stories and perspectives. Students will not only analyze the choices that writers make to share their personal journeys of self discovery and identity, but they will also listen to and discuss the various perspectives that both writers and classmates share. The texts in this unit expose some of the difficult challenges the authors may have faced throughout their lives, and how those challenges have sparked personal growth and discovery of self.
Unit Vocabulary
Unit Vocabulary
claim
(sound) Reason
logic
connotation
tone
appeal to emotion-pathos
appeal to logic-logos
appeal to values -ethos
author’s purpose
rhetorical choices
collaboration
reflect
active listening
elaborate
levelled questions
style
varied sentences
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
Who am I as a reader, as a writer, as a speaker, and as a thinker?
Why are reading, writing, and storytelling essential components of the human experience?
How does English Language Arts expand our perspective?
Why do we see the world the way we do?
How do relationships shape who we are?
How is our identity developed, changed, influenced?
How do universal human experiences connect us to one another?
Unit Standards
Unit Standards
All ELA standards can be found listed in the updated 2017 Massachusetts State ELA Grade 9 Frameworks:
Students will learn...
Reading Information
How to determine the tone of a piece of nonfiction based on word choice
How to explain the author’s purpose to explain, persuade, and/or inform it’s audience
How to explain the relationship between a part of a text and the whole
Speaking and Listening
How to determine and analyze the purpose of information presented
How to respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives
Texts
Texts
Hey, Kiddo
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Being Jazz
Jazz Jennings
The Color of Water
James McBride
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Lab Girl
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
Black Boy
Black Boy
Richard Wright
This Boy's Life
Tobias Woolf
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
Almost American Girl
Robin Ha
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