BHS ELA Instructional Guide

Essential Questions ● What is my purpose for writing informational/explanatory texts? ● What is the value of learning new information and sharing it? ● How do I organize and structure my informational/explanatory writing? End of Unit Writing Competency Example Sample Informational Prompt:

Review the following text/s on the Great Depression and write a multi-paragraph response that explains the effects the Great Depression had on the people who lived through it. Be sure to use evidence from the text/s to support and develop your response.

● Full Prompt and Text Sets ● Annotated Student Samples ● Informative Rubric

*for additional prompts, student samples, and rubrics - go to the Unpacked 11-12 Writing 2 standard. Scaffolding in Action

● Prewriting Strategies ● Chunking an Extended Essay ● 5 Paragraph Outline ● MLA Format (Nearpod) ● Evaluate Student Samples

Skill Building

● Write the World (competitions and writing groups for teens) ● Publish in different format: video, podcast, website, infographic ● Submit to school’s newspaper or literary journal ● Turn it into an OpEd and submit to the newspaper ● Submit for publication: learn how to write a query letter, research publications for submissions, submit essay or narrative for publication Multilingual Learners will construct informational texts in language arts that: ● Establish an objective or neutral stance through… ○ Reporting devices to acknowledge outside sources and integrate information into report as in saying verbs and direct quotes (said, reported, claimed, predicted; according to, as mentioned by) ● Develop coherence and cohesion throughout text through… ○ Expanded noun groups to defne key concepts, add details or classify information (economic development that changed a nation, 200 years of occupation, extinct species) Source: WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition

Extension (Make it Real)

Language Expectations for Multilingual Learners

Essential Vocabulary ● Synthesis ● Cultural signifcance

● Integrate ● Data discrepancy

● Suffcient facts ● Unifying elements in writing

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