HS ELA Guide

Essential Questions ●​ How do interpersonal relationships affect our identities and choices? ●​ What forces and variables contribute to the outcome of an event? ●​ How does cultural experience impact the relationship between society’s view on fate and free will? 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. *for additional prompts, student samples, and rubrics - go to the Unpacked 9-10 Writing 2 standard. Scaffolding in Action Skill Building ●​ Prewriting Strategies ●​ Chunking an Extended Essay ●​ 5 Paragraph Outline ●​ MLA Format (Nearpod) ●​ Evaluate Student Samples Extension (Make it Real) ●​ Write the World (competitions and writing groups for teens) ●​ Publish in different format: video, podcast, website, infographic ●​ Full Prompt and Text Sets ●​ Annotated Student Samples ●​ Informative Rubric

●​ 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: ●​ Introduce and define topic and/or anticipate for the audience through ○​ Opening statements to identify type of information (describing, comparing/contrasting, classifying) ○​ Generalized nouns to maintain neutral voice of authority (artists, scientists, prominent figures) ○​ Reporting devices to acknowledge outside source and integrate information into essay as in saying verbs and direct quotes (said, reported, claimed, predicted; as mentioned by) ●​ Establish an objective or neutral stance

Language Expectations for Multilingual Learners

Source: WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition

Essential Vocabulary ●​ Credible sources ●​ Citation

●​ Main Ideas ●​ Subjective Summary

●​ Cohesion ●​ Comparisons

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