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Reading/Writing Sequence El Cajon Valley High School English Department (2-28-11) Freshman Year

Writing Types: Description and Objectives Assignment Types: 1. Argument: Problem/Solution 2. Expository: Compare/Contrast 3. Narrative: Autobiographical

Description: Students will analyze an author’s argument, identify the evidence given, and account for the central claim Objectives:
 * 1. Argument: Problem/Solution **
 * Identify the text, the author, and other relevant source information (CCS: WS 1A, 1B)
 * Identify the author’s central claim (CCS: WS 1A, 1B)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Identify the problem the author presents and account for his/her solution(s)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Identify evidence and explain how it is used (CCS: WS 1A, 1B)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Incorporate source material (i.e. direct quotations, paraphrases, summaries) and utilize parenthetical citations. (CCS: WS 8, 9)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use words, phrases, and clauses to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.(CCS: WS 1C)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.(CCS: WS 1D)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Writing Assessment//: Briefly summarize the problem the author presents and account for his/her solution(s). In preparing to write this paper other smaller writing assessments should be assigned; in class writings, benchmark assessments, and/or verbal performances.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: Students will be able to write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Objectives:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Expository: Compare/Contrast **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Incorporate source material (i.e. direct quotations, paraphrases, summaries) and utilize parenthetical citations. (CCS: WS 8, 9)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use appropriate and varied transitions to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among complex ideas and concepts.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented (e.g., articulating implications or the significance of the topic).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: Students will be able to write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Narrative: Autobiographical **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Objectives:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation, establishing a point of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use one or more techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Provide a concluding statement that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.