Appendix on Implementing District Standards
RL. 11-12.2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
When students are reading the published mentor texts they will be looking specifically for the central idea of the text and how it develops throughout the story.
RL.11-12.6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.
Students will analyze mentor texts to understand the authors point of view and analyze how specific authorial choices lead to the effectiveness of the narrative. They will look at what techniques the author uses to engage the reader.
W.11-12.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
When students are writing they will be focusing on organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency.
W.11-12.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
This unit revolves around planning and multiple revisions of their personal narrative.
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