BHS ELA Instructional Guide

Unit 4

Multigenre

Pacing

Key Language Uses

6-7weeks

NARRATE and INFORM

Key 11-12 Standards Writing: In PLCs, create a multigenre writing project based on writing standards taught in Units 1-3. Multi-genre writing includes 2 or more writing genres. Consider ways to include multi-modal writing using next generation genres and 21st-century writing tools. Reading: 10. Analyze and evaluate the e ff ectiveness of structures across multiple texts about similar topics/themes, including whether the structures make points or events clear, e ff ective, convincing, or engaging. (RL & RI) 11. Analyze how an author’s geographic location, identity or background, culture, and time period a ff ect the perspective, point of view, purpose, and implicit/explicit messages of a collective body of work. (RL & RI) 12. Analyze how a subject and/or content is presented in two or more mediums by determining which details are emphasized, altered, or absent in each account and how these details influence audiences’ experiences and interpretations. (RL & RI) 14.a Analyze two or more texts of literary significance across and within time periods with similar topics and themes, drawing on their purposes, stylistic choices, and rhetorical features. (RL) Essential Questions ● How do narrative, argument, informative, and research writing intertwine in effective communication? ● What can real-world examples of writing teach us about effective communication? ● What 21st-century tools can we use to share writing? ● Where do we see writing in careers across disciplines? ● How does an author’s location, identity, background, culture, and time period impact their writing? ● What stylistic choices do writer’s make to convey their themes? End of Unit Writing Competency Example Sample Multi-Genre Prompt: Students read and analyze passages from an autobiography looking for specifc examples of multigenre writing within the text. Students then choose to narrate a life event that has connections to or is informed by a larger event in their lives or in the world around them. They compose a multigenre paper that includes the autobiographical narrative essay as well as an informational nonfction piece that provides context for and connections to the story from their life.

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