Unit 4 Learning Target Checklist

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Unit 4: Family and Community Unit 4 Personal Goals:

Unit Objectives:

I know Upon completion of Unit 4, this so each of the following objectives well, I must be mastered: could Prove it… teach it! 90-100% I’m √ starting point + end point I need almost help! there, but have a few ? 0-72% 73-89% Week 1: ❖ RI. 9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. ❖ RI. 9-10.2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. ❖ RI. 9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meaning; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g. how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).

I can define textual evidence as direct quotations from the informational text that support an idea.

I can correctly cite textual evidence from the informational text using MLA format.

I can choose relevant textual evidence from the informational texts that best supports my idea.

I can infer the author’s main idea in an informational text based on evidence and my own reasoning.

I can determine an author’s main idea or claim in an informational text.

I can recognize key details in an informational text.

I can accurately trace how an author shapes his idea throughout a text using quotes, stories, and facts/statistics.

1 I can provide an objective summary of an informational text.

I can compare figurative meaning vs. literal meaning within a text.

I can compare the connotation of a word vs. the denotation of a word.

I can infer the tone of a text based on the author’s diction, or specific word choice.

√ starting point + end point I know Prove it… this well.

90-100%

I need I have a help! few ?

0-72% 73-89%

Week 2: ❖ R.I. 9-10.3 Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them. ❖ R.I.9-10.5: Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter). ❖ R.I.9-10.6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.

I can analyze the order of the author’s main points to see how the main idea is shaped or strengthened using this order (as opposed to another order). I can identify particular sentences, paragraphs, or passages of a text that are particularly important or effective in supporting the author’s main idea or claim.

I can define author’s point of view as their purpose in writing, answering the question of “What is the reason the author wrote this?”

I can identify some common types of author’s purpose, such as to teach, to entertain, or to persuade.

2 I can identify key techniques that an author uses to express their purpose, such as literary devices, writing style, or language.

Weeks 3 & 4: ❖ W. 9-10.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. ❖ W. 9-10.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

When writing an argument, I can define and identify a counterclaim that one may pose against my opinion.

I can write an argumentative claim based on a topic.

I can structure an argumentative piece of writing with an introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs.

I can write using evidence relevant to my audience.