BHS ELA Instructional Guide

Scaffolding in Action

● Prewriting Strategies ● Chunking an Extended Essay ● 5 Paragraph Outline ● MLA Format (Nearpod) ● How to Write a Literary Analysis Essay ● 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 ● New York Times Student Review Contest ● Create a poster of the archetypes in the text and trace their development ● 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. Multilingual Learners will interpret language arts narratives by: ● Identifying themes or central ideas that develop over the course of a text ● Analyzing how author choices about character attributes and actions relate to story elements (setting, event sequences, and context) ● Evaluating the impact of specifc word choices on meaning, tone, and explicit vs. implicit points of view Multilingual Learners will construct language arts arguments that ● Introduce and develop precise claims and address counterclaims. ○ 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)

Skill Building

Extension

Language Expectations for Multilingual Learners

Essential Vocabulary ● Audience ● Claim ● Tone

● Concession ● Counter-Argument ● Refutation

● Logical Fallacy ● Paradox ● Rhetorical Question

Additional Resources

Gallagher, Kelly and Penny Kittle. “Chapter 8: Argument.” 180Days . Heinemann, 2018, p. 189-208. Hillocks, George Jr. Teaching Argument Writing, 6-12 . Heinemann, 2011.

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