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Examining Workplace Text

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Examining Workplace Text

Unit Overview

EXAMINING WORKPLACE TEXT

  11th grade
  5 lessons
  This unit focuses on nonfiction text features and text elements.  Students create various documents including a letter of complaint and a brochure. 
  This unit consists of five lessons. Students create, locate, and interpret key information; create and use graphic organizers; predict and infer; identify parts of and compose business letters; and compose text using various sentence structures and length.
  Handouts including graphic organizers
  Formative and Summative Assessment
  Glossary

Unit Plan: Lessons

  Analyzing Non-Fiction Text Features Word HTML (with links to documents)
Analyzing Non-Fiction Text Elements Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Examining Letters to the Editor Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Letter of Complaint Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Brochure Writing Word HTML (with links to documents)

 Essential Questions:

How do text features clarify meaning in multiple primary and secondary sources?
Why is it important to use details from the text to support your arguments?
How does using active voice improve your writing?
How and why do workplace texts differ?
How can awareness of audience and purpose improve your writing?

Summative Assessment and Scoring Guides:

Students complete three exams covering Audience and Purpose, and two performance assessment exams.

 
 

PREVIOUS LEARNING

TARGETED LEARNING

FUTURE LEARNING

 

R3A:  Evaluate the author’s use of text features to clarify meaning in multiple primary and/or secondary sources.

 

R3A:      Evaluate the author’s use of text features to clarify meaning in multiple primary and/or secondary sources  (1.6)

 

 

 

R3C:   Use details from the text(s) to: 

  • analyze and evaluate the logic, reasonableness, and audience appeal of arguments in texts
  • identify and analyze faulty reasoning and unfounded inferences
  • evaluate for accuracy and adequacy of evidence
  • analyze and evaluate the author's use of information and logic to express his or her ideas through

                >word choice

                > comprehensiveness  of detail selection

                > organizational    patterns

               >evaluate proposed solutions

 

R3C:  Use details from the text(s) to: 

  • analyze and evaluate the logic, reasonableness, and audience appeal of arguments in texts (1.6)
  • identify and analyze faulty reasoning and unfounded inferences (1.7)
  • evaluate for accuracy and adequacy of evidence (3.5)
  • analyze and evaluate the author's use of information and logic to express his or her ideas through:

        >word choice

        >comprehensiveness of              detail selection

        >organizational     patterns

              >evaluate proposed solutions

                (3.6)

 

 

 

W2F:      In composing text, use

§         a variety of sentence structures

§         cohesive devices

§         active voice

 

 

W2F:      In composing text, use

§         variety of sentence structures (1.6)

§         cohesive devices (2.1)

§         active voice (2.2)

 

 

W3E:  Compose texts

§         for a variety of career and workplace communications (e.g., job application, resume, cover letter, college application essay, thank-you note, follow-up note, forms, project proposal, brochure and/or concise directions)

§         for various audiences and purposes, selecting and applying appropriate format, style, tone and point of view

W3E:  Compose texts

§         for a variety of career and workplace communications (e.g., job application, resume, cover letter, college application essay, thank-you note, follow-up note, forms, project proposal, brochure and/or concise directions) (1.8)

§         for various audiences and purposes, selecting and applying appropriate format, style, tone and point of view (2.1)