Pacing Guide Unit 4

Unit 4: Building Outside Knowledge                                                                                                                                                                       Time Frame: 4 Weeks

Objectives Skill Focus Instructional Strategies Activities/Assessments
·         Students will build archival/outside knowledge by engaging in research.

·         Students will practice identifying argument.

·         Students will construct original arguments, counterarguments, and concession.

·         Students will refine annotating skills.

·         Students will refine commentary skills.

·         Students will practice multiple- choice skills.

 ·       Close Reading

·         Identifying Argument and Purpose

·         Building Archival/Outside Knowledge

·         Constructing Original Argument

·         Constructing Counterargument and Concession

·         Synthesizing Information

 ·         Assign nonfiction that supports deep understanding of argumentation.

·         Teach research and synthesis skills

·         Model counterargument and concession strategies.

·         Model revising/refining composition skills.

·         Model multiple-choice strategies.

 ·         Close Reading Exercises

·         Synthesis Deconstruction

·         Counterargument and Concession Exercises

·         Explore the Issues Assignment

·         Précis Paragraphs

·         Research Assignments

·         Writing Revisions
Texts

Full Length Works

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
  • Stiff, Mary Roach
  • A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind
Unit Possibilities
  • Technology and Science
  • Issues of Growing Up
  • Gender

Lessons and Resources. 

  • Close Reading Exercises
  • Synthesis Deconstruction Lessons
  • Synthesis Writing Templates
  • Synthesis Revision
  • Counterargument and Concession Exercise
  • Précis Paragraphs
  • Explore the Issues Assignment
Multiple Choice 
  • The Homicidal Earl: The Life of Lord Cardigan, David Saul (17 Questions)
    • Key and Rationales
  • “On Genius and Common Sense,” William Hazlitt (14 Questions)
    • Key and Rationales

Free Response Questions

 

Rhetorical Analysis

2006 Question 2

Argument

2002 Question 3 Form B

Synthesis

2010 Question 1

Student Samples and Commentary