HS ELA Guide

3. Use appropriate language, grammar, organization, development, and delivery styles appropriate to purpose and audience for formal or informal contexts. a. Convey a clear perspective by concisely presenting and citing information, findings, and supporting evidence so that listeners can follow the line of reasoning. 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.

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

*for additional prompts, student samples, and rubrics - go to the Unpacked 9-10 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: ● Introduce and defne topic and/or anticipate for the audience through ○ Opening statements to identify type of information (describing, comparing/contrasting, classifying)

Extension (Make it Real)

Language Expectations for Multilingual Learners

● Establish an objective or neutral stance

○ Generalized nouns to maintain neutral voice of authority (artists, scientists, prominent fgures) ○ Reporting devices to acknowledge outside source and integrate information into essay as in saying verbs and direct quotes (said, reported, claimed, predicted; as

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