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Teacher:
Racquel O’Connor-Mesa
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Class: Junior English
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Dates: Week of February 4, 2013 through February 25, 2013
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Learning Development:
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UW.G11.3R.C2.PO1
Performance
Objective: Identify, analyze,
and apply knowledge of the purpose, structures, clarity, and relevancy of
functional text.
Learning
Objective: Analyze how patterns of organization,
hierarchical structures, repetition of key ideas, syntax, and word choice
influence the clarity and understandability of functional text.
Kid-Friendly Language: I can examine how the six traits influence the
understandability of functional text.
Key
Terms: Organization,
Structure, Repetition, Ideas, Syntax, Word choice, Clarity,
Understandability, Functional text
Essential Questions:
1.
What is organization? How does the author apply organizational technique to
produce clarity within functional text?
2.
What is a hierarchical structure? How does the author apply different types
of hierarchical structures techniques to produce clarity within functional
text?
3.
What is repetition of key ideas? How does the author apply repetition
techniques to produce clarity within functional text?
4.
What is syntax? How does the author apply syntax technique to produce clarity
within functional text?
5.
What is word choice? How does the author apply word choice techniques to
produce clarity within functional text?
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Bloom’s Level
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Low
Knowledge
Comprehension
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Middle
x Application
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High
x Analysis
Synthesis
x Evaluation
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Anticipatory
Set
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Congruent
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Active
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Past Experience
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Have you ever been confused by an application, owners manual, or
directions on how to construct something? Why was it confusing? How could the author of the material increase
the clarity or understandability? Explain your experience in detail.
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Instructional Strategies
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Student-Led
Identifying
Similarities & Differences
x Summarizing
x Project-Based
Nonlinguistic
Representation
x Setting Objectives
x Peer Feedback
Generating/Testing
Hypothesis
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Teacher-Led
x Lecture
x Discussion
x Homework
x Practice
x Cooperative
Learning
x Instructor Feedback
x Questions, Cues,
Advanced Organizers
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Learning
Activities & Modeling the H.O.T.S.
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Week of February 4,
2013
Students will take interactive notes
on the PowerPoint regarding text structures.
Students will classify various text structures in functional text
samples. Students will also take notes on a Functional Text PowerPoint
regarding the various types of functional text and their purposes.
Week of February 11, 2013
Students will also analyze
a college application for overall clarity based upon patterns of
organization, hierarchical structures, and repetition of key ideas, syntax,
and word choice. Students will also complete the application to give them
real-world experience since they are about to become high school seniors.
Students will also view several want ads, and evaluate the ads for overall
clarity based upon patterns of organization, hierarchical structures, and
repetition of key ideas, syntax, and word choice. Students will be given the
task to research and find a want ad for a job they would like to have as a
first post high school position. Students will also create a greeting card as an example of
short functional text
Week of February
18, 2013
Students
will take notes on the teacher presented PowerPoint regarding resumes and
cover letters. Using the want ad the students were assigned to bring in from
the previous week, students will write a resume and cover letter for their
prospective job utilizing the material presented in the PowerPoint
presentation.
Week of February
25, 2013
In
cooperative groups, students will invent a product that teens of today
couldn’t live without. They will draw
a diagram of their invention, labeling important components. Students will
also need to create an owner’s manual with a set of clear and concise
directions. The project will have a
rubric and groups must present their invention. The Students must remember
what patterns of organization, hierarchical structures, repetition of key
ideas, syntax, and word choice influences the clarity and understandability
of functional text that they have seen throughout this unit.
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Guided
Practice
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Teacher
will model how to assess and analyze how patterns of organization,
hierarchical structures, and repetition of key ideas, syntax, and word choice
influence the clarity and understandability of functional text. Teacher will
also model how to write a resume and cover letter. Students will be
encouraged to actively engage in discussions, generate clarifying questions,
and direct their mastery of functional text through creative opportunities.
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Comprehension
Check
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The students’ comprehension will be assessed through the successful
completion of the analysis of how patterns of
organization, hierarchical structures, and repetition of key ideas, syntax,
and word choice influence the clarity and understandability of functional
text, and successful completion of performance tasks.
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Active
Participation
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All Students
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All the Time
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All students will be active learners and have a role in the successful
mastery of this skill through individual note taking, discussion, observing
teacher modeling, processing/meeting rubric requirements, and successful
completion of activities.
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Covert
Overt
x Combination
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Assessment
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Selected
Response
x Extended Written
Response
x Performance
Assessment x Personal
Communication
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Closure
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Congruent
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Active
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Past Experience
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Student Summary
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Students
will answer the following essential questions:
Part
A:
1.
What is organization? How does the author apply organizational technique to
produce clarity within functional text?
2.
What is a hierarchical structure? How does the author apply different types
of hierarchical structures techniques to produce clarity within functional
text?
3.
What is repetition of key ideas? How does the author apply repetition
techniques to produce clarity within functional text?
4.
What is syntax? How does the author apply syntax technique to produce clarity
within functional text?
5. What is word choice? How
does the author apply word choice techniques to produce clarity within
functional text?
Part B:
Students
will write a paragraph explaining the importance of patterns
of organization, hierarchical structures, repetition of key ideas, syntax,
and word choice influence when trying to understand and efficiently utilize
functional text.
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Independent
Practice
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Students will take interactive notes, analyze various pieces of
functional text, complete applications-resumes-and cover letters, and
complete a functional text project.
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*Students will read a class novel and partake on various
curricular assignments, both reviewing and previewing language arts standards;
concomitantly, with the above essential standard.
