HS ELA Guide

●​ 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 specific 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 sufficient evidence. ○​ Connectors to elaborate an idea/interpretation (so, this means, therefore, leading one to believe, a way to this about this)

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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.” 180 Days . Heinemann, 2018, p. 189-208. Hillocks, George Jr. Teaching Argument Writing, 6-12 . Heinemann, 2011.

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