Unit Two

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Unit Two

• Expository Text Biography

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Reasons for Rewrite

• Better align first semester to what we have
  learned about TAKS.
• Include more direct reading strategy instruction.
• Provide earlier and stronger support for skills
  used later in course.

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Materials

• Various popular magazines, especially with
  articles about people
• Offer students incentive to contribute old
  magazines to the class.
• Access to www.biography.com .

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Vocabulary

• Context clues
• Structural analysis
• Adverb Adjective endings
• Think-alouds (See Lesson 2.3)
• Word associations

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Reading Strategies

• Anticipation Guide (prereading)
• Think-alouds (during reading)
• Fix-up Strategies (bookmarks)
• Problem / Solution (during reading)
• Sequencing / Chronological order
• Cause and effect
• Description
• Fact and opinion

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Literature

• Names, Nombres
• Knots in My Yo-yo String
• Detailed analysis, A7
• Use for think aloud
• From The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• literature groups

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Terms

• Biography
• Autobiography
• Memoir

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Biography.com Assignment (B3)(A8)

• Internet access
• Biographies of the Millennium / The Millennium
  List
• Teacher modeling / Student tasks (appendix and
  blackline)
• Highlighting model Ben Franklin (A8)
• Oral presentation

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Writing Process

• Leads
• Transitions (specific examples from text)
• Peer revision and editing
• Evaluation rubric

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Literature Circles (A9) (B10)

• Task Sheets
• Word Wizard
• Meaning Maker
• Strategist
• Organizer