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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