Thursday, January 8, 2015

Friday, January 9 - Informational text / Primary and Secondary Sources

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze informational text and determine primary and secondary sources in order to prepare for Keystones and improve literary comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

Copy into Notebooks

Objective - clear, factual - without opinion or bias / Usually found more in secondary sources such as textbooks and biographies (information gathered from several sources).

Subjective - clouded by a person's opinions; biased - usually a direct witness, a first hand account, someone that was "there" (autobiographies, personal letters, journals).

Direct Instruction

Soft Holt reader - read introduction to Informational Text / Primary and Secondary Sources - p 172

Guided / Independent

Choose either a Fireman's Story (p 192-193) or From a Lifeboat (p194-194), Answer all sidebar questions into notebooks.

Then - in constructed response format:

Analyze the effect of primary source in either of these first hand accounts. Do you think (evaluate) it is a completely factual account or might there be some bias? Explain by citing specific examples.

Closure 

Review answers 

Exit Pass

Name the components of a persuasive argument and explain why graphics or statistics might be used.

HW - Study for Monday Keystone

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