BHS ELA Instructional Guide

Screen Week?” Be sure to use evidence from the texts, as well as your own knowledge, to support and develop your thinking.

● Full Prompt and Text Sets ● Annotated Student Samples - Con ● Annotated Student Samples - Pro ● Argument Rubric

*for additional prompts, student samples, and rubrics - go to the Unpacked 9-10 Writing 1 standard. Scaffolding in Action

● Prewriting Strategies ● Chunking an Extended Essay ● 5 Paragraph Outline ● MLA Format (Nearpod) ● Evaluate Student Samples ● Mini Moves for Writers Videos - Argument Writing Unit ● Write the World (competitions and writing groups for teens) ● Submit to school’s newspaper or literary journal ● Turn it into an OpEd and submit to the newspaper ● Petition to the school Principal and BLT to change the current school cell phone policy. ● New York Times Student Review Contest Multilingual Learners will interpret and construct language arts arguments by ● Analyzing use of rhetoric and details to advance point of view or purpose. ● Logically organize claims, counterclaims, reasons, and evidence; offer a conclusion with recommendations through… ● Introduce and develop precise claims and address counterclaims. ○ Declarative statements to frame topic, provide background information, state claim, and acknowledge counterclaim (In “Social Media as Community,” Keith Hampton argues that those who use social media feel less socially isolated even though they may have fewer close relationships than people 20 years ago.) ○ Use connectors to introduce alternative points of view (although, on the other hand, unlike, contrary to common belief) ● Support claims and refute counterclaims with valid reasoning and relevant and suffcient evidence. ○ Connectors to elaborate an idea/interpretation (so, this means, therefore, leading one to believe, a way to this about this) ○ comparing/contrasting connectors to differentiate between claims and counterclaims (unlike, as opposed to, contrasted with, conversely, similarly, inspire of that)

Skill Building

Extension (Make it Real)

Language Expectations for Multilingual Learners

Source: WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition

Last Updated August 13, 2024

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